Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub vs Microsoft SQL Server

• One of the oldest distributors of enterprise standard Hadoop.
• Distribution is based on open source Hadoop even though customizations are done on top of that.
• Faster updates and bug fixes to the products as they have Apache committers.
• Central configuration and control of your Hadoop platform (but still needs improvements).

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• Easy to setup with the included Wizard that helps to get you up and running with the essential components covered. You won't waste a lot of time reading through documentation to just get started.
• There is a large community of support for Microsoft SQL Server that can help to troubleshoot issues and explain how to tackle a problem.
• The other components and modules to the system make is easy to setup backups and connections to other services.

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• As any new technology, difficult to hire resources who know the solution specially in APJC to help with Lab and PoC activities.

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• There isn't as much that I dislike with SQL Server. It will be good to have features where we have fine grain control over internal things. For example, it would have been a good feature to have historical tracking of the metrics as opposed to setting up custom metrics. Overall SQL Server made my life easy to manage a lot of databases and ease of use while migration projects.
• The database is the target of many attacks from it's SA account, this must come disabled by default and just after the instalation, some of 30 seconds, the attacks start, with many requests per second, it needs to improve the firewall to prevent these attacks, or put the SQL Server inside of a VPN and local network to avoid these attacks.
• It requires knowledge and in-depth technical skills to make complex processes truly performing, especially if we are in very complex infrastructures

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• The tools in Cloudera Enterprise have enabled us to perform seamless upgrades and monitor the clusters
• Investing in the support enables us to engage with Cloudera to get access to required patches and backports in case of bugs which helps with wider adoption of open source software in the enterprise.
• Voice of the customer enabled us to put forth requests for new features across various components.

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• We can very quickly and easily start up a new database.
• Active Directory integration has been a huge time saver for us.
• It changed the way we did our data backup strategy by giving us a backup 4-5 times a day instead of once at night.

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