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Likelihood to Recommend
Cloudera Manager
It would be suited for customers who feel more comfortable with using a GUI. It is less appropriate for developers or engineers who are comfortable with command line
Senior Systems Engineer
Exeter Government Services, LLCInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Hortonworks Data Platform
I find HDP easy to use and solves most of the problems for people looking to manage their big data. Evaluating the Hortonworks Data Platform is easy as it is free to download and install in your cluster. Single node cluster available as Sandbox is also easy for POCs.
Senior Software Developer
NventInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Pros
Cloudera Manager
- Graphical user interface
- Management of third party applications start/stop/restart functionality through framework
- Support of Apache Hadoop ecosystem
- Ability to do "rolling restarts"
Senior System Engineer
Exeter Government Services, LLCInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Hortonworks Data Platform
- It does a good job of packaging a lot of big data components into bundles and lets you use the ones you are interested in or need. It supports an extensive list of components which lets us solve many problems.
- It provides the ability to manage installations and maintenance using Apache Ambari. It helps us in using management packs to install/upgrade components easily. It also helps us add, remove components, add, remove hosts, perform upgrades in a convenient manner. It also provides alerts and notifications and monitors the environment.
- What they excel in is packaging open source components that are relevant and are useful to solve and complement each other as well as contribute to enhancing those components. They do a great job in the community to keep on top of what would be useful to users, fixing bugs and working with other companies and individuals to make the platform better.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesCons
Cloudera Manager
- 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.
Senior Systems Engineer
Exeter Government Services, LLCInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Hortonworks Data Platform
- Since it doesn't come with propriety tools for big data management, additional integration is need (for query handling, search, etc).
- It was very straightforward to store clinical data without relations, such as data from sensors of a medical device. But it has limitations when needed to combine the data with other clinical data in structured format (e.g. lab results, diagnosis).
- Overall look and feel of front-end management tools (e.g. monitoring) are not good. It is not bad but it doesn't look professional.

Verified User
Team Lead in Research & Development
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employeesLikelihood to Renew
Cloudera Manager
Cloudera Manager 8.5
Based on 2 answers
It is a well developed product with a good user interface.
Senior System Engineer
Exeter Government Services, LLCInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Hortonworks Data Platform
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Cloudera Manager
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Hortonworks Data Platform
Hortonworks Data Platform 9.0
Based on 1 answer
Try not to change variable names.
Principal Software Engineer
Videojet TechnologiesPrinting, 1001-5000 employees
Alternatives Considered
Cloudera Manager
I have not used any competitors, such as Hortonworks, because Cloudera Manager just works and meets all my customer's needs. I only have deployed Hadoop using command line, which is not easy to use and manage.
Senior Systems Engineer
Exeter Government Services, LLCInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Hortonworks Data Platform
We chose [Hortonworks Data Platform] because it's free and because [it] was an IBM partner, suggested as big data platform after biginsights platform.
You can install in more physical computer without high specs, then you can use it in order to learn how to deploy, configure a complete big data cluster.
We installed also in a cloud infrastructure of 5 virtual machine
Project List 2018 - 2012
Blue ReplyOnline Media, 5001-10,000 employees
Return on Investment
Cloudera Manager
- 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.
Senior System Engineer
Exeter Government Services, LLCInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Hortonworks Data Platform
- It is difficult to have a negative impact, because the required investment is not that high.
- The big open community behind Hortonworks and related Apache Project makes it easy to put 'the wheel to meet the road' quite quickly.
- We have seen management meetings where the attendants were impressed by the results achieved with the datalake built on HDP.
Big Data & Cognitive Computing Practice Leader
QuanamInformation Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Pricing Details
Cloudera Manager
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Hortonworks Data Platform
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No