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Cloudera Distribution Hadoop (CDH), discontinued

Score4.9 out of 10

9 Reviews and Ratings

What is Cloudera Distribution Hadoop (CDH), discontinued?

Cloudera Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH) was Cloudera’s enterprise distribution of Apache Hadoop and related open-source components for distributed data storage, processing, analytics, and data engineering. CDH is discontinued and has reached end of support. Cloudera lists CDH as a legacy product, and the final Cloudera Enterprise 6 releases associated with CDH reached end of support in March 2022. Eligible customers could receive limited support for CDH 6.2 and 6.3 through September 30, 2022.

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Quick, robust, but a little pricey

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cloudera Distribution Hadoop (CDH) has been a useful tool working with our architects for data visualization. My team uses it primarily to the analytical tools it provides. Some other functions like the overarching database, warehousing, and ML have been easy to use and communicate. It is also nice having all these different insight in one place.

Pros

  • Solid and robust set of integrations
  • Easy to use and easy to deploy across the enterprise
  • Reliability - never lost any info
  • Simple and clean interface

Cons

  • The price is quite high competitively speaking
  • Hard to learn more robust functions and custom options without experience

Most Important Features

  • Ability to expand node environments on a large scale
  • Analytics and dashboards
  • Ability to automate and deploy ML and AI quickly

Return on Investment

  • Saves time by automating typically manual processes (data management, lifecyle AI etc)
  • Quick deployments and analytics allow for faster time-to-value

Alternatives Considered

Amazon Web Services