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Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs Couchbase Enterprise comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 31, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.5
Measuring ROI from Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is complex due to diverse applications, pricing, and evaluation difficulties.
Sentiment score
7.1
Companies reduced costs and increased speed-to-market with Couchbase Enterprise by replacing Redis and enhancing efficiency and productivity.
Reducing costs by half and supporting around five times the non-peak user volume during peak hours.
Couchbase maintained consistent productivity as a finished solution that worked well, saving us time dealing with something less efficient.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.5
Cloudera's Hadoop support receives mixed reviews, with users praising responsiveness while noting concerns on quality and accessibility.
Sentiment score
6.7
Couchbase Enterprise support is largely positive but could improve in proactive support and personalized solutions for larger organizations.
The technical support is quite good and better than IBM.
The support team has been helpful with VNET configuration, Sync Gateway, and other technical issues.
We used the documentation, which was well-written and clear.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is highly scalable and flexible, suitable for large deployments but can be costly to expand.
Sentiment score
7.1
Couchbase Enterprise offers strong scalability, despite some challenges, proving ideal for large-scale data management and high throughput.
Couchbase is extremely scalable, which is critical when handling high throughput and load.
It was easily scalable, which is expected from a NoSQL database.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.3
Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop has mixed stability reviews, with hardware issues noted, but support and workarounds are available.
Sentiment score
7.2
Couchbase Enterprise is stable and reliable, though minor bugs and compatibility issues with updates can affect performance.
We faced challenges but overcame those challenges successfully.
We didn't experience any downtime, and the data stayed there consistently.
Couchbase is highly stable, rated at nine out of ten.
Once it's set up, it's easy to use, and there are no headaches.
 

Room For Improvement

Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop struggles with stability and integration, needing better performance, security, documentation, and modern deployment solutions.
Couchbase Enterprise faces challenges with system integration, scalability, support lag, documentation, and complex operations needing improvements.
Integrating with Active Directory, managing security, and configuration are the main concerns.
I would like Couchbase to provide more functionality via the UI, as some operations, such as time-based scaling, currently require using the API.
This delay meant that data on another database, Elasticsearch, was not always up to date, which could be noticed in the games.
What is missing is that they have a new version, Couchbase Mobile three, but they haven't really updated or provided help or documentation about what needs to change to update to the latest mobile version.
 

Setup Cost

Cloudera's Hadoop distribution is costly, aimed at large enterprises, lacking a community version, with per-node licensing.
Couchbase Enterprise offers flexible pricing with potential complexity, requiring careful consideration of licensing costs and integration expenses.
It can be deployed on-premises, unlike competitors' cloud-only solutions.
They did update, and since then, I haven't had any problems anymore.
It can range between 25,000 to 40,000 Euros per year depending on company requirements.
 

Valuable Features

Cloudera for Hadoop offers easy installation, robust security, tool integration, scalability, and supports on-premises and cloud environments.
Couchbase Enterprise offers scalability, diverse paradigms, fast performance, mobile support, and ease of use with strong analytics and management.
It is scalable, ready for vertical scaling, and very powerful, offering numerous functionalities and configurations for generative AI.
The best thing about Couchbase is its versatility in handling data.
The most valuable features of Couchbase include the key-value storage due to its speed and the multi-master capability, which provides more speed and scalability compared to master-slave databases.
We didn't experience any downtime.
 

Categories and Ranking

Cloudera Distribution for H...
Ranking in NoSQL Databases
8th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
Hadoop (2nd)
Couchbase Enterprise
Ranking in NoSQL Databases
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the NoSQL Databases category, the mindshare of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is 2.4%, down from 2.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Couchbase Enterprise is 8.7%, down from 12.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
NoSQL Databases
 

Featured Reviews

Rok Dolinsek - PeerSpot reviewer
Enables on-premise implementation with powerful data processing capabilities
This is the only solution that is possible to install on-premise. Cloudera provides a hybrid solution that combines compute on cloud or on-premises. It includes all machine learning algorithms in the Spark machine learning library. All functionalities needed for a big data platform and ETL are on the platform, eliminating the need for other tools. It is scalable, ready for vertical scaling, and very powerful, offering numerous functionalities and configurations for generative AI.
Ravi_Singh  - PeerSpot reviewer
Supports multiple data models and offers AI capabilities
With some of the operations, we used to face some challenges with scalability. Although it worked pretty well, in some scenarios, we noticed issues where the replications and the sharding were not happening correctly. In recent versions, we also faced some issues in terms of enabling advanced operations like FTS and vectors. Although it works pretty well, in some places, we do face challenges, especially on a heavy scale. I think all issues are being addressed in the latest version of Couchbase. The resources are not that good for Couchbase. The tool's documentation is pretty extensive, but if you go for any kind of courses or tutorials, there are very limited resources available. It also becomes a little bit challenging for new people to get onboard into it. MongoDB and other such open-source database tools perform really well as they're really widely adopted, and they have resources available to get you onboarded pretty quickly. I think that we do face some challenges with Couchbase, but luckily, we have the tool's enterprise version solution, so we get all the support from the product team.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Educational Organization
17%
Computer Software Company
12%
Energy/Utilities Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
Retailer
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop?
The tool can be deployed using different container technologies, which makes it very scalable.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop?
The price for Cloudera is average, yet it is very good compared to other solutions. It can be deployed on-premises, unlike competitors' cloud-only solutions.
What needs improvement with Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop?
It is quite complicated to configure and install. Integrating the platform into an information system is always a challenge, especially when starting with on-premise implementation. Integrating wit...
What needs improvement with Couchbase?
The main issue we keep facing from the past couple of years, observing other teams using Couchbase, is that whenever there is an upgrade, we see many issues with compatibility or nodes not intercon...
What is your primary use case for Couchbase?
Basically we have clusters, Couchbase clusters, databases, and that is how we use Couchbase with XDCR. All the clusters are set up and then we use Couchbase. It is a complex application setup we us...
What advice do you have for others considering Couchbase?
It is a good solution, but as every product needs improvement, this also needs some enhancement. It is a good product. I rate Couchbase seven out of ten.
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

37signals, Adconion,adgooroo, Aggregate Knowledge, AMD, Apollo Group, Blackberry, Box, BT, CSC
Amadeus, Cisco, Comcast, LinkedIn, GE
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