Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub vs Snowflake

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

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Rober Thendrickson

Agile Developer

Wipro DigitalInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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For an organization that has small, medium, or large data collection, Snowflake provides the best infrastructure to store, manage, utilize and analyze the data. Especially for companies that are growing at a really fast pace, it helps you not only with warehouse capabilities but also its connection with several BI tools give you the flexibility and option to connect and analyze the data [in] real time.

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Rounak Verma

Data Analyst

Raymour and FlaniganRetail, 5001-10,000 employees

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Pros

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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Rakesh Neelavar Rao

Sr. Development Engineer - Big Data Platform Architecture

QuaeroMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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This is a cloud-based application that provides me a secure platform for the easy sharing of data with my clients.
I feel confident to connect with my numerous business partners just because of its advanced security and effective programming.
Through this tool, I am capable of integrating, analyzing, and the entire data in a precise form and with analytics as well, due to which I always have a transparent idea about the data extraction and its transfer from multiple clouds.

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Darren Mihalic

Business Development Manager

Torqx Capital PartnersVenture Capital & Private Equity, 11-50 employees

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Cons

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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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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Snowflake UI can be clunky and breaks sometimes, which can be annoying
Snowflake has to be paired with the Data Build Tool (DBT) to allow for templating and macro usage. No inbuilt solution.
Snowflake Python connector development doesn't necessarily track popular packages such as Pandas as quickly as Pandas releases
Could do with better machine learning capability over warehouse tables, but I assume this is coming soon

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Verified User

Engineer in Other

Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$20 Per TB

Snowflake Editions & Modules

Edition

US East	$20.00¹

Per TB

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Likelihood to Renew

Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub 8.2

Based on 7 answers

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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Verified User

Team Lead in Professional Services

Computer Networking Company, 10,001+ employees

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Snowflake 8.0

Based on 1 answer

SnowFlake is very cost effective and we also like the fact we can stop, start and spin up additional processing engines as we need to. We also like the fact that it's easy to connect our SQL IDEs to Snowflake and write our queries in the environment that we are used to

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Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering

Computer Games Company, 51-200 employees

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Usability

No score

No answers yet

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Snowflake 8.5

Based on 13 answers

The interface is similar to other SQL query systems I've used and is fairly easy to use. My only complaint is the syntax issues. Another thing is that the error messages are not always the easiest thing to understand, especially when you incorporate temp tables. Some of that is to be expected with any new database.

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Jake Schlingman

Product Manager

AppFolio, Inc.Computer Software, 1001-5000 employees

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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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Snowflake 7.3

Based on 12 answers

Overall, the support from Snowflake has been very good. Since we are one of the major users for Snowflake and have a dedicated tech team to solve all the technical problem on our way. On the side of the technical problem, any sql related questions can be found from everywhere online.

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Verified User

Analyst in Corporate

Cosmetics Company, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

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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Loam Diaconu

Scrum developer

EndavaInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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In my experience running the data management practice at InterWorks, we believe that cloud data warehouse products will eventually serve the majority of data warehousing use cases and power data analytics at most companies. Of this cohort, we believe that Snowflake is the best among them for most customers. It's easier to manage, in many cases faster, and in almost all cases it is less expensive because of the ability to automatically resume and suspend depending on usage.

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Brian Bickell

Data Practice Director

InterWorksInformation Services, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

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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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Faster data retrieval makes real time analysis possible.
Option to create multiple warehouses enable us to track usages and cost by departments.
Option to scale up/down computational warehouse to support peak hours and month end loads makes Snowflake cost effective.
Zero-copy cloning reduces storage and deployment cost.
Multiple users can access the same amount of data without deadlocks which is a common scenario in relational databases.

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Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology

Consumer Goods Company, 51-200 employees

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