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Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop vs ScyllaDB comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 7, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Cloudera Distribution for H...
Ranking in NoSQL Databases
9th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.3
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
Hadoop (2nd)
ScyllaDB
Ranking in NoSQL Databases
8th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the NoSQL Databases category, the mindshare of Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is 6.1%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ScyllaDB is 5.7%, down from 9.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
NoSQL Databases Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ScyllaDB5.7%
Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop6.1%
Other88.2%
NoSQL Databases
 

Featured Reviews

Rok Dolinsek - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Bussines Development & Co Owner at Troia d.o.o.
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.
Manikandan Gunasekaran - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Engineering at Ola
Reliable data management with great reliability and performance
From a sales pitch standpoint, it needs to deliver on promises of better ROI and compaction. Additionally, ticketing and support systems could be improved due to the time it takes to get answers. There's also an issue with compatibility when attempting to switch back from the enterprise to the community version.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"For the clusters using CM, we are able to more tightly control and manage the configuration of all nodes in the clusters."
"Cloudera Manager is the most valuable feature for its ease of use, features, ease of upgrade and install components."
"Cloudera won as it had more functionality with HUE, Sqoop, and Solr as built-in functions."
"The search function is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"Very good end-to-end security features."
"Cloudera provides a hybrid solution that combines compute on cloud or on-premises."
"I don't see any performance issues."
"The most valuable feature is that I can use CDH for almost all use cases across all industries, including the financial sector, public sector, private retailers, and so on."
"ScyllaDB is fast and reliable. It has good performance."
"I like how fast it is to query data from the ScyllaDB node!"
"ScyllaDB is very fast, and I can use it for so many things."
"The documentation is good. It integrates easily with our existing data infrastructure."
"Scalability in performance is good."
"Firstly, if I update something, it's most likely to finish within milliseconds."
"It is lightweight, and it requires less infrastructure."
"The product's most valuable features are efficiency and reliability."
 

Cons

"The price of this solution could be lowered."
"Spark with R integration is missing. Also, it is lacking Spark SQL support."
"The Cloudera training is terrible."
"Sometimes the heavy queries do not finish at all."
"Cloudera's support is extremely bad and cannot be relied on."
"Cloudera is not as easy, as it requires more DevOps resources than other solutions."
"Apache Kudu needs improvement. It's a real-time updatable database."
"The Data Science Workbench doesn't support multiple languages. It needs to support multiple programming languages."
"Data export, along with how we can purchase the data periodically, needs to be improved so that the storage is within control. Then, we could optimize it even better."
"The documentation of Scylla is an area with shortcomings and needs to be improved."
"ScyllaDB needs to improve its handling of transactions."
"The product needs to add more features and improve the response time of the support team."
"We faced several challenges while integrating ScyllaDB into our AWS environment. One common issue was that a security port wasn’t opened on one node, preventingdata synchronization across clusters. We noticed the data wasn’t syncing correctly when we saw different record counts in other regions. After investigating, we found that the port was closed in one AWS region. Once we opened the port, the data synchronization across all nodes resumed as expected."
"We've had occasional performance challenges that required resource adjustments or optimizations in our interaction with the platform."
"If you don't have the best computing resources, then it's not easy to set up. In such cases, we have to run ScyllaDB in developer mode."
"Support and the availability of support need improvement. I would give them a six out of ten."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is expensive."
"The price could be better for the product."
"Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop is expensive, with support costs involved."
"The pricing must be improved."
"The tool is not expensive."
"I haven't bought a license for this solution. I'm only using the Apache license version."
"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."
"It is an expensive product."
"I believe that there is a yearly licensing cost and that it's expensive."
"The paid version of ScyllaDB is not that expensive. The main advantage of the paid version is direct support from the ScyllaDB team, which can resolve issues faster—typically within a day, compared to two to three days with the free version. The paid version also offers better guidance and support, while the free version has good documentation and is more high-level. I’d rate their support team nine out of ten because of the quick responses from their community."
"It's a bit expensive."
"It is an expensive tool compared to its competitor."
"It's free."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Construction Company
9%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
Outsourcing Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Transportation Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise9
Large Enterprise32
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise8
 

Questions from the Community

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?
If they could support modifying the data more easily than the current implementation, it would be beneficial.
What is your primary use case for Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop?
We use Cloudera Distribution for Hadoop for many use cases including analytics, storing huge data sets, and various data processing tasks.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Scylla?
From what I’ve seen (and experienced), ScyllaDB pricing is very dependent on how you deploy it, and that’s where most of the confusion comes from.
What needs improvement with Scylla?
From a sales pitch standpoint, it needs to deliver on promises of better ROI and compaction. Additionally, ticketing and support systems could be improved due to the time it takes to get answers. T...
What is your primary use case for Scylla?
We dump a lot of our data, such as every entry created with respect to when a user rides a scooter, every record gets updated to ScyllaDB. It is used as a single source of truth and it manages mass...
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

37signals, Adconion,adgooroo, Aggregate Knowledge, AMD, Apollo Group, Blackberry, Box, BT, CSC
IBM, Investing.com, mParticle, Comcast, GE, Fanatics, Ola, CERN, adgear, Samsung
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