Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub vs TIBCO Spotfire

Likelihood to Recommend

Cloudera Enterprise offers the right mix of components to build a robust data platform which supports both reporting and analytics which can deal with all sorts of data.

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Rakesh Neelavar Rao

Sr. Development Engineer - Big Data Platform Architecture

QuaeroMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Suitable for even large numbers of data points in both the chemical or biological data domains. Also powerful when calculated columns are to be inserted into tables. The filter and label function is a very powerful feature when subsetting data within one Spotfire project. It is also capable of exporting sheets to PDF format, so it is also convenient to share key findings with others. It is less appropriate for chemical data in less mainstream formats (e.g SDF, MOL2).

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Lewis Mervin

PostDoctoral Researcher

University of CambridgePharmaceuticals, 5001-10,000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

TIBCO Spotfire

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

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TIBCO Spotfire

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Report sharing and collaboration

Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

TIBCO Spotfire

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

TIBCO Spotfire

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

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TIBCO Spotfire

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

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Responsive Design for Web Access

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

TIBCO Spotfire

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

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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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees

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Cross tables. Most people call them pivot tables perhaps, from the excel version, but Spotfire does them so much better! Easier to build and arrange, and with tons more options than the excel pivot table.
Mapping. The improved mapping capabilities of Spotfire along with its ease of use, allow you to build fabulous looking maps very quickly.
Aggregation. Spotfire is built to aggregate, and it does this better and faster than anything else I know of.

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Jonathan Tucker

Reservoir Engineering Tech

Red Bluff ResourcesOil & Energy, 11-50 employees

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Cons

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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Team Lead in Professional Services

Computer Networking Company, 10,001+ employees

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Feature parity between web publishing and the Spotfire client: some features of Spotfire that work flawlessly in the Spotfire client break when published to the web. In particular, custom JavaScript inserted into the analysis tends not to render well on the web even if it renders perfectly in the client.
Lack of thorough documentation: particularly when comparing Spotfire documentation to the documentation for Python, JMP, or Matlab, Spotfire's documentation is lacking. In particular, I remember finding documentation on custom SQL queries being very sparse. Most often I would base my Spotfire solutions on examples found on forums rather than on official TIBCO advice.
The execution time of custom R data functions: TIBCO Spotfire uses its own implementation of the R runtime (called TERR, TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R) which I noticed to be significantly slower than the open-source runtime for certain tasks.
Error reporting: error reporting by both TERR and IronPython is very opaque and makes debugging very difficult.

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Josh Smith

Electrical Engineering Summer Intern

MedtronicElectrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub 8.2

Based on 7 answers

Cloudera is expanding with varied range of products and it looks to me as a challenging company and very competitive in the Big Data market. I would recommend to using the latest stable version as new features are added with each version and different bugs are fixed. As Big data is a constantly evolving so trying new Cloudera products helps businesses to stay competitive in the market domain as every big organization is now trying to move to Big Data.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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TIBCO Spotfire 8.1

Based on 27 answers

-Easy to distribute information throughout the enterprise using the webplayer.-Ad hoc analysis is possible throughout the enterprise using business author in the webplayer or the thick client.-Low level of support needed by IT team. Access interfaces with LDAP and numerous other authentication methods.-Possible to continually extend the platform with JavaScript, R scripts, HTML, and custom extensions.-Ability to standardize data logic through pre-built queries in the Information Designer. Everyone in the enterprise is using the same logic-Tagging and bookmarking data allows for quick sharing of insights.-Integration with numerous data sources... flat files, data bases, big data, images, etc.-Much improved mapping capability. Also includes the ability to apply data points over any image.

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Brent Meyers

Data Visualization Developer

QuintilesResearch, 10,001+ employees

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Usability

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TIBCO Spotfire 8.5

Based on 25 answers

Basic tasks like generating meaningful information from large sets of raw data are very easy. The next step of linking to multiple live data sources and linking those tables and performing on the fly analysis of the imported data is understandably more difficult.

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Brock Robertson

Reservoir Engineer

Tapstone EnergyOil & Energy, 51-200 employees

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Reliability and Availability

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TIBCO Spotfire 7.9

Based on 16 answers

Even though, it's a rather stable and predictable tool that's also fast, it does have some bugs and inconsistencies that shut down the system. Depending on the details, it could happen as often as 2-3 times a week, especially during the development period.

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Alex Naumov

Global Pricing and Marketing Operations Lead, Analytics & Research

General Electric - Power Generation ServicesOil & Energy, 10,001+ employees

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Performance

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TIBCO Spotfire 7.9

Based on 16 answers

With a small or medium amount of data (up to 200-300K rows and 50 columns), its speed is comparable to QlikView and Tableau or even slightly slower - though hardly noticeable. With larger data volumes (up to 1M rows and 50 columns), it's getting faster than many others. Spotfire 4.02 gets really bogged down after 5-10M rows though.

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Alex Naumov

Global Pricing and Marketing Operations Lead, Analytics & Research

General Electric - Power Generation ServicesOil & Energy, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

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TIBCO Spotfire 8.4

Based on 28 answers

Support has been helpful with issues. Support seems to know their product and its capabilities. It would also seem that they have a good sense of the context of the problem; where we are going with this issue and what we want the end outcome to be.

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Tim Daciuk

Product Manager - Mobile Computing Analytics Cloud Platform

Zebra TechnologiesComputer Hardware, 5001-10,000 employees

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In-Person Training

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TIBCO Spotfire 7.7

Based on 52 answers

I have only had the basic training. It was very useful for new users. The majority of what is taught in the training can be self-taught by daily use of the product. However there were also many things I learned even after using the product for over a year. I would highly recommend investing in the training offered by TIBCO

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Cal Humphrey

Reservoir Engineer

Tapstone EnergyOil & Energy, 51-200 employees

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Online Training

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TIBCO Spotfire 7.9

Based on 54 answers

The online training is good, provides a good base of knowledge. The video demonstrations were well-done and easy to follow along. Provided exercises are good as well, but I think there could be more challenging exercises. The training has also gone up in price significantly in the last 3 years (in USD, which hurts us even more in Canada), and I'm not sure it is worth the money it now costs (it is worth how much it cost 3 years ago, but not double that.)

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Emilie Wheeler

Operations Analyst II

Empire LifeInsurance, 501-1000 employees

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Implementation Rating

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TIBCO Spotfire 5.7

Based on 18 answers

The original architecture I created for our implementation had only a particular set of internal business units in mind. Over the years, Spotfire gained in popularity in our company and was being utilized across many more business units. Soon, its usage went beyond what the original architectural implementation could provide. We've since learned about how the product is used by the different teams and are currently in the middle of rolling out a new architecture.I suggest:

Have clearly defined service level agreements with all the teams that will use Spotfire. Your business intelligence group might only need availability during normal working hours, but your production support group might need 24/7 availability. If these groups share one Spotfire server, maintenance of that server might be a problem.
Know the different types of data you will be working with. One group might be working with "public" data while another group might work with sensitive data. Design your Library accordingly and with the proper permissions.
Know the roles of the users of Spotfire. Will there only be a small set of report writers or does everyone have write access to the Library?
ALWAYS add a timestamp prompt to your reports. You don't want multiple users opening a report that will try and pull down millions of rows of data to their local workstations. Another option, of course, is to just hard code a time range in the backing database view (i.e. where activity_date >= sysdate - 90, etc.), but I'd rather educate/train the user base if possible.
This probably goes without saying, but if possible, point to a separate reporting database or a logical standby database. You don't want the company pounding on your primaries and take down your order system.

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Michael Soliman

Senior Database Developer

TransUnion Interactive1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I have not evaluated any similar products, and in fact, don't know of any direct competitor. Amazon's Redshift has a similar spirit.

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Lois Garcia, GSEC

Senior System Administrator

TuneInInternet, 51-200 employees

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The advantage of Spotfire over Tableau or Domo is the advanced modeling capabilities. Although Tableau and Domo have created interfaces with R, they are nowhere near as easy to implement as they are in Spotfire. The advantage of Spotfire over SAS Enterprise Miner is the broader range of easily created visualizations that don't require an experienced data scientist. Spotfire, of course, does not have some of the advanced modeling capabilities of say a SAS Enterprise Miner nor the zooming ability that Qlick Sense offers. Overall, it stacks up well.

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Thomas Young

Senior Economist

Utah LegislatureFinancial Services, 11-50 employees

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Scalability

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TIBCO Spotfire 7.5

Based on 4 answers

The program has proved to be very useful and allows for analyzing various forms of data.

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Justin Ricker

Manager

Norfolk SouthernTransportation/Trucking/Railroad, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

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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Rakesh Neelavar Rao

Sr. Development Engineer - Big Data Platform Architecture

QuaeroMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees

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Interactive reporting, slice and dice.
Time saving as the Web player can be used for analyzing data interactively.
Analytics and visualization in the same tool.
Primarily business intelligence and reporting costs are saved once it is set up with the ability to dissect data in a useful manner without the need for an extensive reporting team. This is useful in terms of cost savings.

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Prabhu Ramamoorthy

TIBCO Spotfire consultant

Ernst & YoungFinancial Services, 1001-5000 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

Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

No

TIBCO Spotfire Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

TIBCO Spotfire Platform	Please contact TIBCO sales

SaaS Edition

TIBCO Cloud Spotfire - Analyst	$125/mo, $1250/yr¹
TIBCO Cloud Spotfire - Business Author	$65/mo, $650/yr¹
TIBCO Spotfire for Amazon Web Services	$0.99²
TIBCO Spotfire Cloud Enterprise	Please contact TIBCO sales
TIBCO Cloud Spotfire - Consumer	$25/mo, $250/yr⁴

Per Seat
Per Hour (Starting)
Per Seat

Additional Pricing Details

For Enterprise engagements, please contact TIBCO directly for a custom price quote.

Rating Summary

Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

TIBCO Spotfire

Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

TIBCO Spotfire

Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

TIBCO Spotfire

Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

TIBCO Spotfire

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TIBCO Spotfire

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TIBCO Spotfire

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TIBCO Spotfire

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TIBCO Spotfire

Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub

TIBCO Spotfire

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TIBCO Spotfire

Likelihood to Recommend