Cloudera Data Platform vs. Tableau Server

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cloudera Data Platform
Score 5.8 out of 10
N/A
Cloudera Data Platform (CDP), launched September 2019, is designed to combine the best of Hortonworks and Cloudera technologies to deliver an enterprise data cloud. CDP includes the Cloudera Data Warehouse and machine learning services as well as a Data Hub service for building custom business applications.
$0.04
per CCU (hourly rate)
Tableau Server
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Tableau Server allows Tableau Desktop users to publish dashboards to a central server to be shared across their organizations. The product is designed to facilitate collaboration across the organization. It can be deployed on a server in the data center, or it can be deployed on a public cloud.
$12
Per User Per Month
Pricing
Cloudera Data PlatformTableau Server
Editions & Modules
CDP Public Cloud - Data Hub
$0.04
per CCU (hourly rate)
CDP Public Cloud - Data Warehouse
$0.054
per CCU (hourly rate)
CDP Public Cloud - Data Engineering
$0.07
per CCU (hourly rate)
CDP Public Cloud - Operational Database
$0.08
per CCU (hourly rate)
CDP Public Cloud - Flow Management
$0.15
per CCU (hourly rate)
CDP Public Cloud - Machine Learning
$0.17
per CCU (hourly rate)
CDP Private Cloud - Plus Edition
$400
CCU (annual subscription)
CDP Private Cloud - Base Edition
$10,000.00
node + variable (annual subscription)
Viewer
$12.00
Per User Per Month
Explorer
$35.00
Per User Per Month
Creator
$70.00
Per User Per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Cloudera Data PlatformTableau Server
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Features
Cloudera Data PlatformTableau Server
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Cloudera Data Platform
-
Ratings
Tableau Server
9.5
94 Ratings
15% above category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings9.129 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings9.793 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings9.780 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Cloudera Data Platform
-
Ratings
Tableau Server
9.1
94 Ratings
12% above category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings8.994 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings8.892 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings9.058 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings9.788 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Cloudera Data Platform
-
Ratings
Tableau Server
8.4
90 Ratings
1% above category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings9.884 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings9.683 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings9.169 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.276 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings5.19 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Cloudera Data Platform
-
Ratings
Tableau Server
8.7
89 Ratings
9% above category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings8.985 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings8.984 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings8.463 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Cloudera Data Platform
-
Ratings
Tableau Server
8.2
94 Ratings
3% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.292 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.289 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings8.291 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings8.261 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Cloudera Data Platform
-
Ratings
Tableau Server
8.4
78 Ratings
7% above category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings8.176 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings8.160 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings9.067 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Cloudera Data Platform
-
Ratings
Tableau Server
7.2
45 Ratings
8% below category average
REST API00 Ratings9.039 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings9.036 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings9.039 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings5.57 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings6.19 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings4.67 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Cloudera Data PlatformTableau Server
Small Businesses
Google BigQuery
Google BigQuery
Score 8.7 out of 10
BrightGauge
BrightGauge
Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub
Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub
Score 9.0 out of 10
Reveal
Reveal
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Oracle Exadata
Oracle Exadata
Score 9.3 out of 10
Jaspersoft Community Edition
Jaspersoft Community Edition
Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
Cloudera Data PlatformTableau Server
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
8.1
(110 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(20 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
5.2
(16 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(8 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
3.0
(18 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(13 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Cloudera Data PlatformTableau Server
Likelihood to Recommend
Cloudera
I have seen that Cloudera Data Platform is well suited for large batch processes. It works really well for our indication analyses that are performed by the actuaries. I feel that rapid streaming operations may be a situation where additional technology would be needed to provide for a robust solution.
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Tableau
Tableau Server is well suited for a data warehouse build and handling big data. Tableau data aggregation, transformation, clustering capability is powerful and easy to implement. The choice of charts and visualisation tools is outstanding. Customisation and dynamic data visualisation capability is superb. The user interface takes some time getting used to.
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Pros
Cloudera
  • Scales
  • Highly available
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Tableau
  • It's good at doing what it is designed for: accessing visualizations without having to download and open a workbook in Tableau Desktop. The latter would be a very inefficient method for sharing our metrics, so I am glad that we have Tableau Server to serve this function.
  • Publishing to Tableau Server is quick and easy. Just a few clicks from Tableau Desktop and a few seconds of publishing through an average speed network, and the new visualizations are live!
  • Seeing details on who has viewed the visualization and when. This is something particularly useful to me for trying to drive adoption of some new pages, so I really appreciate the granularity provided in Tableau Server
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Cons
Cloudera
  • Constantly changing costs
  • Log visibility
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Tableau
  • Tableau Server has had some issue handling some of our larger data sets. Our extract refreshes fail intermittently with no obvious error that we can fix
  • Tableau Server has been hard to work with before they launched their new Rest API, which is also a little tricky to work with
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Likelihood to Renew
Cloudera
No answers on this topic
Tableau
It simply is used all the time by more and more people. Migrating to something else would involve lots of work and lots of training. The renewal fee being fair, it simply isn't worth migrating to a different tool for now.
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Usability
Cloudera
No answers on this topic
Tableau
I think the use case we described earlier about a non-technical user that was copying/pasting data into Word during emergencies is our best reason. This person had little technical ability, and the Tableau mobile solution powered by Tableau server completely resolved the issues. She has since become one of the most vocal proponents of Tableau.
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Reliability and Availability
Cloudera
No answers on this topic
Tableau
Our instance of Tableau Server was hosted on premises (I believe all instances are) so if there were any outages it was normally due to scheduled maintenance on our end. If the Tableau server ever went down, a quick restart solved most issues
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Performance
Cloudera
No answers on this topic
Tableau
While there are definitely cases where a user can do things that will make a particular worksheet or dashboard run slowly, overall the performance is extremely fast. The user experience of exploratory analysis particularly shines, there's nothing out there with the polish of Tableau.
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Support Rating
Cloudera
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.
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Tableau
I think the folks that work in support are generally pretty good at what they do (when you get them on a WebEx). But the process of reporting issues to them and waiting for a response (via email only) is a hassle. I never understood why you can't just call them up and discuss the issues with them. It would take a handful of email exchanges before they would agree to a WebEx session. That was frustrating.
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In-Person Training
Cloudera
No answers on this topic
Tableau
In our case, they hired a private third party consultant to train our dept. It was extremely boring and felt like it dragged on. Everything I learned was self taught so I was not really paying attention. But I do think that you can easily spend a week on the tool and go over every nook and cranny. We only had the consultant in for a day or two.
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Online Training
Cloudera
No answers on this topic
Tableau
The Tableau website is full of videos that you can follow at your own pace. As a very small company with a Tableau install, access to these free resources was incredibly useful to allowing me to implement Tableau to its potential in a reasonable and proportionate manner.
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Implementation Rating
Cloudera
No answers on this topic
Tableau
Implementation was over the phone with the vendor, and did not go particularly well. Again, think this was our fault as our integration and IT oversight was poor, and we made errors. Would they have happened had a vendor been onsite? Not sure, probably not, but we probably wouldn't have paid for that either
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Alternatives Considered
Cloudera
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.
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Tableau
Today, if my shop is largely Microsoft-centric, I would be hard pressed to choose a product other than Power BI. Tableau was the visualization leader for years, but Microsoft has caught up with them in many areas, and surpassed them in some. Its ability to source, transform, and model data is superior to Tableau. Tableau still has the lead in some visualizations, but Power BI's rise is evidenced by its ever-increasing position in the leadership section of the Gartner Magic Quadrant.
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Return on Investment
Cloudera
  • Reduced operational costs
  • Speed to market
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Tableau
  • Tableau does take dedicated FTE to create and analyze the data. It's too complex (and powerful) a product not to have someone dedicated to developing with it.
  • There are some significant setup for the server product.
  • Once sever setup is complete, it's largely "fire and forget" until an update is necessary. The server update process is cumbersome.
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ScreenShots

Tableau Server Screenshots

Screenshot of Tableau Server interface and administration view 1.Screenshot of Tableau Server interface and administration view 2.Screenshot of Tableau Server permissions view.Screenshot of Tableau Services Manager (TSM) view 1.Screenshot of Tableau Services Manager (TSM) view 2.