Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs IBM Spectrum Computing comparison

"Customer service and support were able to fix whatever the issue was."

"The features I find most valuable is that the solution is that it is easy to install and to work with. It starts with the installation and from there on the management is very simple and centralized."

"The product provides better data processing features than other tools."

"The main advantage is the storage is less expensive."

"The file system is a valuable feature."

"I don't see any performance issues."

"The data science aspect of the solution is valuable."

"CDH has a wide variety of proprietary tools that we use, like Impala. So from that perspective, it's quite useful as opposed to something open-source. We get a lot of value from Cloudera's proprietary tools."

"We are satisfied with the technical support, we have no issues."

"Spectrum Computing's best features are its speed, robustness, and data processing and analysis."

"The comparison was challenging, but the IBM Spectrum Scale offered a balanced solution. Our engineers rated itsanalytics capabilities equally high as Pure Storage. For workload management, Spectrum Computing provided effective solutions that met our needs. Workload management is part of a complete solution that uses different tools. There were the cloud and HPC parts; within HPC, there were parts like liquid cooling, simple computing, storage, and orchestration. The orchestration team handled the workload management."

"Easy to operate and use."

"IBM's ability to cluster compute resources is impressive, with built-in support for scenarios like VR and active-active configurations,"

"I have utilized IBM Spectrum Computing's intelligent workload management feature through Insights, which is connected to the cloud."

"The best features of IBM Spectrum Computing are common across many of their storage products."

"The most valuable feature is the backup capability."

"The performance of some analytics engines provided by Cloudera is not that good."

"If they could support modifying the data more easily than the current implementation, it would be beneficial."

"The competitors provide better functionalities."

"We experienced many issues when we started working with Hadoop 3.0 in the Cloudera 6.0 version, so there is a lot of things that need to improve."

"The governance aspect of the solution should be improved."

"There is a maximum of a one-gigabyte block size, which is an area of storage that can be improved upon."

"The tool doesn't support reporting, and relational databases are still the major source of reporting data. Apache Iceberg will be launched soon within the Cloudera cluster for analytical purposes. The Cloudera Machine Learning aspect could be tuned and enhanced to enable us to host some predictive analytics machine learning and AI use cases."

"While the deployed product is generally functional, there are instances where it presents difficulties."

"Lack of sufficient documentation, particularly in Spanish."

"The deduplication software isn't quite up to speed with the market. While IBM has excellent compression technology, specifically on their FlashCore modules, they lag behind competitors such as NetApp in deduplication capabilities."

"We have not been able to use deduplication."

"IBM's sales and support structure can be challenging."

"We'd like to see some AI model training for machine learning."

"SMB storage and HPC is not compatible and it should be supported by IBM Spectrum Computing."

"In Pakistan, IBM's disadvantage is the lack of OEM support and presence."

"This solution is no longer managing tapes correctly."

"When comparing with Oracle Sybase and SQL, it's cheaper. It's not expensive."

"The tool is expensive...For the SMB market or customers whose environments are not that complex and do not have multiple systems running, Cloudera might not be a good option."

"The tool is not expensive."

"The solution is fairly expensive."

"The price is very high. The solution is expensive."

"I believe we pay for a three-year license."

"The solution is expensive."

"I haven't bought a license for this solution. I'm only using the Apache license version."

"Spectrum Computing is one of the most expensive products on the market."

"This solution is expensive."