Cloudera Manager vs DataStax Enterprise

• Graphical user interface
• Management of third party applications start/stop/restart functionality through framework
• Support of Apache Hadoop ecosystem
• Ability to do "rolling restarts"

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• Datastax Cassandra provides high availability and good performance for a database. It is built on top of open source Apache Cassandra so you can always somewhat understand the internal functioning and why.
• Datastax Cassandra is fairly simple to start using, you can install/setup your cluster and be productive in 1 day.
• Datastax Cassandra provides a lot of good detailed documentation, and when starting, the detailed free videos on the Datastax site and documentation are very helpful.
• Datastax Enterprise Edition of Cassandra provides more tools, good support, and quick response SLA for enterprise business support.

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• Cloudera Manager needs to be more agile with integrating other applications, such as Accumulo 1.7, to their software.
• Cloudera Manager can do a better job at explaining why a node fails to add to a cluster using their assistant.
• Cloudera Manager should show graphs only when there is data, instead of showing just an empty box.

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• Cassandra is a bit difficult to learn and understand
• The costs are slightly higher for our company
• Hardware requirement is moderate to high at the beginning

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• Cloudera Manager has allowed our organization to deploy Apache Hadoop to operations quicker and with less training versus using the command line exclusively.
• Increased employee efficiency.
• Increased product adoption.

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• Highly Scalable Database, Highly Available Services, and Platforms.
• High Performance, Low Latency and Highest throughput across varying workloads.
• Configured, Tuned and Monitored correctly works to provide the best user experience!
• Negative: Maintenance and Debugging Corner Cases

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