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Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Azure Synapse Analytics

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AAzure Synapse Analytics is described as the former Azure SQL Data Warehouse, evolved, and as a limitless analytics service that brings together enterprise data warehousing and Big Data analytics. It gives users the freedom to query data using either serverless or provisioned resources, at scale. Azure Synapse brings these two worlds together with a unified experience to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for immediate BI and machine learning needs.

    $4,700

    per month 5000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)

    Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub powered by SDX is a multifunction analytics solution that supports a range of operational and analytic use cases for enterprises.N/A
    Pricing
    Azure Synapse AnalyticsCloudera Enterprise Data Hub
    Editions & Modules
    Tier 1
    $4,700
    per month 5,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
    Tier 2
    $9,200
    per month 10,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
    Tier 3
    $21,360
    per month 24,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
    Tier 4
    $50,400
    per month 60,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
    Tier 5
    $117,000
    per month 150,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
    Tier 6
    $259,200
    per month 360,000 Synapse Commit Units (SCUs)
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure Synapse AnalyticsCloudera Enterprise Data Hub
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Azure Synapse AnalyticsCloudera Enterprise Data Hub
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Cloudera
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    80%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    10 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    80%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
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    User Ratings
    Azure Synapse AnalyticsCloudera Enterprise Data Hub
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.7
    (12 ratings)
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure Synapse AnalyticsCloudera Enterprise Data Hub
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    It's well suited for large, fastly growing, and frequently changing data warehouses (e.g., in startups). It's also suited for companies that want a single, relatively easy-to-use, centralized cloud service for all their data needs. Larger, more structured organizations could still benefit from this service by using Synapse Dedicated SQL Pools, knowing that costs will be much higher than other solutions. I think this product is not suited for smaller, simpler workloads (where an Azure SQL Database and a Data Factory could be enough) or very large scenarios, where it may be better to build custom infrastructure.
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    Cloudera
    Cloudera excels at seamless migrations and upgrades.



    Cloudera supports self-healing and data center
    replacement of failed cloud instances while maintaining the state.



    Cloudera is essential to increase or decrease
    capacity through the user interface or API.



    Cloudera is great at simplifying big data analytics
    by providing the technology and tools needed to gain insights from IoT and
    connected devices to help monitor and condition our assets.



    Cloudera's cybersecurity platform option offers
    stronger anomaly detection, visibility, and prevention, as well as faster
    behavioral analysis.



    Cloudera is beneficial for enabling and utilizing
    the platform's machine learning and ad-hoc queries while securely storing,
    retrieving, and analyzing any volume of data at scale.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Quick to return data. Queries in a SQL data warehouse architecture tend to return data much more quickly than a OLTP setup. Especially with columnar indexes.
    • Ability to manage extremely large SQL tables. Our databases contain billions of records. This would be unwieldy without a proper SQL datawarehouse
    • Backup and replication. Because we're already using SQL, moving the data to a datawarehouse makes it easier to manage as our users are already familiar with SQL.
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    Cloudera
    • Excellent management capabilities via Cloudera Manager.
    • Open source and does not restrict our data to be bound by a proprietary format.
    • Offers excellent support for data governance and auditing.
    • Has all the components that would help us build a data hub.
    • Excellent platform support offered by Cloudera.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • With Azure, it's always the same issue, too many moving parts doing similar things with no specialisation. ADF, Fabric Data Factory and Synapse pipeline serve the same purpose. Same goes for Fabric Warehouse and Synapse SQL pools.
    • Could do better with serverless workloads considering the competition from databricks and its own fabric warehouse
    • Synapse pipelines is a replica of Azure Data Factory with no tight integration with Synapse and to a surprise, with missing features from ADF. Integration of warehouse can be improved with in environment ETl tools
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    Cloudera
    • Not fully Open Source, couple of components of the distributions are privately owned, meaning with public contributions are not welcome
    • Improvements to Cloudera manager can only be recommended. its very hard to get it done once recommended as the full control is with them.
    • Should make components more aligned to Open Source rather than making it closed sourced.
    • Custom Features of open source software tools supported only by Cloudera are tricky. Cant commit changes to tools like Hue.
    • Improvements to Cluster Management tool is required, which are already available to its competitors.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Cloudera
    Likely to renew the use in case the requirements for Cloudera remain valid. The rapid change in customer requirements and solutions that must be validated, integrated or tested changes. As the maturity of the solution increases, the requirements to renew use decrease. From a solution feature perspective by itself would probably grade 10.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    The data warehouse portion is very much like old style on-prem SQL server, so most SQL skills one has mastered carry over easily. Azure Data Factory has an easy drag and drop system which allows quick building of pipelines with minimal coding. The Spark portion is the only really complex portion, but if there's an in-house python expert, then the Spark portion is also quiet useable.
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    Cloudera
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    Microsoft does its best to support Synapse. More and more articles are being added to the documentation, providing more useful information on best utilizing its features. The examples provided work well for basic knowledge, but more complex examples should be added to further assist in discovering the vast abilities that the system has.
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    Cloudera
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    In comparing Azure Synapse to the Google BigQuery - the biggest highlight that I'd like to bring forward is Azure Synapse SQL leverages a scale-out architecture in order to distribute computational processing of data across multiple nodes whereas Google BigQuery only takes into account computation and storage.
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    Cloudera
    Cloudera is
    compatible with Windows operating systems, and Mac allows cloud-based
    deployment, it is also very useful to configure data encryption, guarantee
    protocols, and security policies. It also provides integrated auditing and
    monitoring capabilities, as well as a control comprehensive data repository for
    the enterprise, and ensures vendor compatibility through its open-source
    architecture.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Microsoft
    Basically, the billing is predictable, and this all about it.
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    Cloudera
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Licensing fees is replaced with Azure subscription fee. No big saving there
    • More visibility into the Azure usage and cost
    • It can be used a hot storage and old data can be archived to data lake. Real time data integration is possible via external tables and Microsoft Power BI
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    Cloudera
    • Cloudera products are the most widely. It is more business friendly as data is more secure. The sensitive data that you operate on is local to you and your project rather than processing this data on Cloud.
    • Cloudera is definitely faster as wait time is reduced if on Cloud.
    • A lot range of products are covered. So it is definitely good for businesses and had good returns on investments.
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