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Cloudera

Cloudera Data Platform

Composite Score

8.1 /10

CX Score

8.4 /10

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What is Cloudera Data Platform?

Cloudera Data Platform is a hybrid data platform designed for unmatched freedom to choose—any cloud, any analytics, any data. Cloudera delivers fast and easy data management and data analytics for data anywhere, with optimal performance, scalability, and security. Cloudera offers the highest performance and lowest cost platform for using data to drive better business outcomes.

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Awards & Recognition

Cloudera Data Platform won the following awards in the Analytical Data Store category

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Strategy and Innovation

Latest Award, 2025

5 Top Rated Capabilities

2 Top Rated Features

2025

5 Top Rated Capabilities

4 Top Rated Features

2024

1 Top Rated Capabilities

0 Top Rated Features

2023

0 Top Rated Capabilities

1 Top Rated Features

2022

Cloudera Data Platform Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

85 Likeliness to Recommend

1
Since last award

96 Plan to Renew

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

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+92 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Cloudera Data Platform?

6% Negative

4% Neutral

90% Positive

Pros

Respectful
Acts with Integrity
Helps Innovate
Trustworthy

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Distributed Processing

Data Integration

Analytics and Data Science Tools

Data Security

Data Management

Analytics and Reporting

Platform Administration

Workload Management and Monitoring

Real Time Capabilities

Metadata Management

Data Visualization

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 81

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Customization

Usability and Intuitiveness

Vendor Support

Cloudera Data Platform Reviews

Sunil r.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Other
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2026

enterprise data analysis and management platform

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Cloudera Data Platform from other similar products?

integrated data management capabilities across both on premises and cloud environments.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

as a data analyst you gain the ability to work with large and complex data sets.

What do you dislike most about this product?

initial setup and learning process is relatively complicated.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

suitable for data analysts who work on enterprise level data.

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy
Unique Features

Obaloluwa A.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2025

Flexible but lacks features.

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Cloudera Data Platform from other similar products?

Cloudera Data Platform stands out with its unified architecture for data engineering, data warehousing, and machine learning, offering robust security, multi-cloud support, and strong integration capabilities.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favorite aspect of Cloudera Data Platform is its unified architecture, which seamlessly integrates data engineering, data warehousing, and machine learning. This allows teams to work collaboratively across different data workflows while maintaining data security and governance. Additionally, its strong support for multi-cloud environments offers flexibility in deploying data solutions tailored to organizational needs.

What do you dislike most about this product?

The most significant drawback of Cloudera Data Platform is its complexity, which can make the initial setup and configuration challenging for users, especially those who are not familiar with big data environments. Additionally, the user interface can feel cumbersome and less intuitive compared to some competitors, potentially leading to a steeper learning curve for new users. Furthermore, while it offers a comprehensive set of features, some users may find it lacks certain advanced functionalities or flexibility that other platforms provide.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Assess needs, invest in team training, run a pilot, and leverage multi-cloud support for flexibility.

Pros

Performance Enhancing
Fair
Altruistic
Generous Negotitation

Rajesh k.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Engineering
Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Oct 2024

Easy to use, fantastic product for scratch work

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Cloudera Data Platform from other similar products?

Variety of features and couple of plugins and connectors

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Lot of heterogeneous connector

What do you dislike most about this product?

Initial setup and training cost

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Must try this for olap , oltp and data lake solutions

Pros

Client Friendly Policies
Acts with Integrity
Generous Negotitation
Security Protects

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Cloudera Data Platform Ratings

85 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

96 Plan to Renew

83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Cloudera Data Platform?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Distributed Processing Data storage and processing is shared among many physical or virtual independents servers or sites for high volume data with seamless access to large datasets.

Data Integration Includes integration of data from multiple sources, merging systems, transforming data and capture data to form a unified view of a company's data assets

Analytics and Data Science Tools Includes Analytics and Data science components such as AI, statistical and machine learning libraries

Data Security Includes ability to hide sensitive data by masking with special characters or anonymous information.

Data Management Includes data sharing, data storage, records management, and data security.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Platform Administration Includes back-end interface and administrative capabilities

Workload Management and Monitoring Includes task, performance, monitoring and time management

Real Time Capabilities Ability to analytics and visualize data as soon as it becomes available in underline systems.

Metadata Management Easily manage metadata associated with customer data or audience segments.

Data Visualization Thematic visualization with the ability to change views, including color, pattern/icon, dot-density, chart, scaled-symbol, and 3D prism themes

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Cloudera Data Platform Reviews

Sunil r.

enterprise data analysis and management platform

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Obaloluwa A.

Flexible but lacks features.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Rajesh k.

Easy to use, fantastic product for scratch work

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Distributed Processing

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Analytics and Data Science Tools

Data Security

Data Management

Analytics and Reporting

Platform Administration

Workload Management and Monitoring

Real Time Capabilities

Metadata Management

Data Visualization

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Availability and Quality of Training

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Customization

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