Cloudera Manager vs Db2 Big SQL

Likelihood to Recommend

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

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Ethan Tran

Senior Systems Engineer

Exeter Government Services, LLCInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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My recommendation obviously would depend on the application. But I think given the right requirements, IBM DB2 Big SQL is definitely a contender for a database platform. Especially when disparate data and multiple data stores are involved. I like the fact I can use the product to federate my data and make it look like it's all in one place. The engine is high performance and if you desire to use Hadoop, this could be your platform.

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Gene Baker

Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer

WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo CompanyFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Pros

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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Charles Inglese

Senior System Engineer

Exeter Government Services, LLCInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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data storage
data manipulation
data definitions
data reliability

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John Spies

Database Administrator

RewardsLive.comInternet, 51-200 employees

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Cons

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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Ethan Tran

Senior Systems Engineer

Exeter Government Services, LLCInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Cloud readiness.
Ease of implementation.

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Gene Baker

Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer

WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo CompanyFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

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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

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Likelihood to Renew

Cloudera Manager 8.5

Based on 2 answers

It is a well developed product with a good user interface.

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Charles Inglese

Senior System Engineer

Exeter Government Services, LLCInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Usability

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Db2 Big SQL 8.0

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IBM DB2 is a solid service but hasn't seen much innovation over the past decade. It gets the job done and supports our IT operations across digital so it is fair.

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John Spies

Database Administrator

RewardsLive.comInternet, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

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Db2 Big SQL 8.8

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IBM did a good job of supporting us during our evaluation and proof of concept. They were able to provide all necessary guidance, answer questions, help us architect it, etc. We were pleased with the support provided by the vendor. I will caveat and say this support was all before the sale, however, we have a ton of IBM products and they provide the same high level of support for all of them. I didn't see this being any different. I give IBM support two thumbs up!

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Gene Baker

Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer

WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo CompanyFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

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.

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Ethan Tran

Senior Systems Engineer

Exeter Government Services, LLCInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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MS SQL Server was ruled out given we didn't feel we could collapse environments. We thought of MS-SQL as more of a one for one replacement for Sybase ASE, i.e., server for server. SAP HANA was evaluated and given a big thumbs up but was rejected because the SQL would have to be rewritten at the time (now they have an accelerator so you don't have to). Also, there was a very low adoption rate within the enterprise. IBM DB2 Big SQL was not selected even though technically it achieved high scores, because we could not find readily available talent and low adoption rate within the enterprise (basically no adoption at the time). We ended up selecting Exadata because of the high adoption rate within the enterprise even though technically HANA and Big SQL were superior in our evaluations.

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Gene Baker

Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer

WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo CompanyFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

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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Charles Inglese

Senior System Engineer

Exeter Government Services, LLCInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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better data visibility
solid reliability for mission critical data

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John Spies

Database Administrator

RewardsLive.comInternet, 51-200 employees

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Cloudera Manager vs Db2 Big SQL