Overall Satisfaction with Cloudera Enterprise
I first worked with Hadoop before there was Cloudera Enterprise. I remember quite well editing files across systems and devising methods to watch for changes, the pain of working out user access privileges, and the search for a sane package management. Cloudera Manager provides tools for all of this and more. The BI engineering team bootstrapped the Hadoop ecosystem, and I have just recently come in to support expansion. Cloudera Enterprise is great, and I appreciate supporting a company like Cloudera which is firmly rooted in the community.
- Gives a view of the entire ecosystem
- Enables the management of a cluster as a cluster, not individual servers
- Eliminates the possibility of manual error executing complex administration tasks
- I have no suggestions...yet.
- Faster deployment of the environment
I have not evaluated any similar products, and in fact, don't know of any direct competitor. Amazon's Redshift has a similar spirit.