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Attribute Ratings
- Cloudera Data Platform is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
- Amazon Redshift is rated higher in 1 area: Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
9.9
Cloudera Data Platform
99%
2 Ratings
9.2
Amazon Redshift
92%
34 Ratings
Usability
Cloudera Data Platform
N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
Amazon Redshift
100%
9 Ratings
Support Rating
8.0
Cloudera Data Platform
80%
2 Ratings
9.1
Amazon Redshift
91%
12 Ratings
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Cloudera Data Platform
N/A
0 Ratings
10.0
Amazon Redshift
100%
1 Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
Cloudera Data Platform
In the creation of maintenance models Cloudera can excel greatly, because it allows you to create very scalable and applicable processes in different types of technology, either for reporting based purely on data, or to implement its analysis modalities to develop IT projects. In case of requiring detailed review of different phases of IT processes, Cloudera can be useful in security operations that require high expertise in shared data.
Independent Contractor Hearing Examiner
LAWYERBESLegal Services, 201-500 employees
Amazon Redshift
If the number of connections is expected to be low, but the amounts of data are large or projected to grow it is a good solutions especially if there is previous exposure to PostgreSQL. Speaking of Postgres, Redshift is based on several versions old releases of PostgreSQL so the developers would not be able to take advantage of some of the newer SQL language features. The queries need some fine-tuning still, indexing is not provided, but playing with sorting keys becomes necessary. Lastly, there is no notion of the Primary Key in Redshift so the business must be prepared to explain why duplication occurred (must be vigilant for)
Senior Business Intelligence Consultant
SermoResearch, 201-500 employees
Pros
Cloudera Data Platform
- Scales
- Highly available

Verified User
Director in Engineering
Insurance Company, 51-200 employeesAmazon Redshift
- [Amazon] Redshift has Distribution Keys. If you correctly define them on your tables, it improves Query performance. For instance, we can define Mapping/Meta-data tables with Distribution-All Key, so that it gets replicated across all the nodes, for fast joins and fast query results.
- [Amazon] Redshift has Sort Keys. If you correctly define them on your tables along with above Distribution Keys, it further improves your Query performance. It also has Composite Sort Keys and Interleaved Sort Keys, to support various use cases
- [Amazon] Redshift is forked out of PostgreSQL DB, and then AWS added "MPP" (Massively Parallel Processing) and "Column Oriented" concepts to it, to make it a powerful data store.
- [Amazon] Redshift has "Analyze" operation that could be performed on tables, which will update the stats of the table in leader node. This is sort of a ledger about which data is stored in which node and which partition with in a node. Up to date stats improves Query performance.
Staff Data Engineer
Hearst AutosMarketing & Advertising, 501-1000 employees
Cons
Cloudera Data Platform
- Constantly changing costs
- Log visibility

Verified User
Director in Engineering
Insurance Company, 51-200 employeesAmazon Redshift
- We've experienced some problems with hanging queries on Redshift Spectrum/external tables. We've had to roll back to and old version of Redshift while we wait for AWS to provide a patch.
- Redshift's dialect is most similar to that of PostgreSQL 8. It lacks many modern features and data types.
- Constraints are not enforced. We must rely on other means to verify the integrity of transformed tables.
Data Scientist
Wonder (AskWonder.com)Research, 11-50 employees
Pricing Details
Cloudera Data Platform
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0.04 per CCU (hourly rate)
Cloudera Data Platform Editions & Modules
Edition
CDP Public Cloud - Data Engineering | $0.071 |
---|---|
CDP Public Cloud - Data Warehouse | $0.0541 |
CDP Public Cloud - Operational Database | $0.081 |
CDP Public Cloud - Machine Learning | $0.171 |
CDP Public Cloud - Data Hub | $0.041 |
CDP Public Cloud - Flow Management | $0.151 |
CDP Private Cloud - Plus Edition | $4002 |
CDP Private Cloud - Base Edition | $10,000.003 |
- per CCU (hourly rate)
- CCU (annual subscription)
- node + variable (annual subscription)
Additional Pricing Details
—Amazon Redshift
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0 per hour
Amazon Redshift Editions & Modules
Edition
Current Generation | $0.25 - $13.041 |
---|---|
Previous Generation | $0.25 - $4.081 |
Redshift Spectrum | $5.002 |
Redshift Managed Storage | $0.243 |
- per hour
- per terabyte of data scanned
- per GB per month
Additional Pricing Details
—Usability
Cloudera Data Platform
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift 10.0
Based on 9 answers
Just very happy with the product, it fits our needs perfectly. Amazon pioneered the cloud and we have had a positive experience using RedShift. Really cool to be able to see your data housed and to be able to query and perform administrative tasks with ease.
Senior Developer
American Board of Internal MedicineNon-Profit Organization Management, 201-500 employees
Support Rating
Cloudera Data Platform
Cloudera Data Platform 8.0
Based on 2 answers
We have utilized Cloudera support quite frequently and are very satisfied with the capability and responsiveness of that team. Often, the new features delivered with the platform give us an opportunity to mature the way we're doing things, and the support team have been valuable in developing those new patterns.

Verified User
Director in Engineering
Insurance Company, 51-200 employeesAmazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift 9.1
Based on 12 answers
The support was great and helped us in a timely fashion. We did use a lot of online forums as well, but the official documentation was an ongoing one, and it did take more time for us to look through it. We would have probably chosen a competitor product had it not been for the great support

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Financial Services Company, 5001-10,000 employeesAlternatives Considered
Cloudera Data Platform
IBM's offering of the Cloud Pak for Data has been a moving target and difficult to compare to Cloudera Data Platform. We have implemented our solution on Amazon Web Services, which appears to be supported by IBM at this point, but the migration would be very expensive for us to endeavor.

Verified User
Director in Engineering
Insurance Company, 51-200 employeesAmazon Redshift
Than Vertica: Redshift is cheaper and AWS integrated (which was a plus because the whole company was on AWS).
Than BigQuery: Redshift has a standard SQL interface, though recently I heard good things about BigQuery and would try it out again.
Than Hive: Hive is great if you are in the PB+ range, but latencies tend to be much slower than Redshift and it is not suited for ad-hoc applications.
Than BigQuery: Redshift has a standard SQL interface, though recently I heard good things about BigQuery and would try it out again.
Than Hive: Hive is great if you are in the PB+ range, but latencies tend to be much slower than Redshift and it is not suited for ad-hoc applications.

Verified User
Director in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 1001-5000 employeesContract Terms and Pricing Model
Cloudera Data Platform
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Amazon Redshift
Amazon Redshift 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Redshift is relatively cheaper tool but since the pricing is dynamic, there is always a risk of exceeding the cost. Since most of our team is using it as self serve and there is no continuous tracking by a dedicated team, it really needs time & effort on analyst's side to know how much it is going to cost.
Analytics Lead
Monotype Solutions IndiaInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees
Return on Investment
Cloudera Data Platform
- Reduced operational costs
- Speed to market

Verified User
Director in Engineering
Insurance Company, 51-200 employeesAmazon Redshift
- Our company is moving to the AWS infrastructure, and in this context moving the warehouse environments to Redshift sounds logical regardless of the cost.
- Development organizations have to operate in the Dev/Ops mode where they build and support their apps at the same time.
- Hard to estimate the overall ROI of moving to Redshift from my position. However, running Redshift seems to be inexpensive compared to all the licensing and hardware costs we had on our RDBMS platform before Redshift.
Principal Data Architect
IntuitComputer Software, 5001-10,000 employees