Cloudera vs hortonworks

Cloudera vs. Hortonworks: The Differences

That being said, the differences are the ones that play a deciding role of choosing one vendor over the other. Broadly, Cloudera and Hortonworks differ in the following aspects:

• Cloudera has announced that its long term goal is to become an “enterprise data hub,” thus diminishing the need of data warehouse. Hortonworks, on the other hand, remains firmly a provider of Hadoop distro, and has partnered with data warehousing company Teradata.
• While Cloudera CDH can be run on windows server, HDP is available as a native component on the windows server. A Windows-based Hadoop cluster can be deployed on Windows Azure through HDInsight Service.
• Cloudera has a proprietary management software Cloudera Manager, SQL query handling interface Impala, as well as Cloudera Search for easy and real-time access of products. Hortonworks has no proprietary software, uses Ambari for management and Stinger for handling queries, and Apache Solr for searches of data.
• Cloudera has a commercial license, while Hortonworks has open source license. Cloudera also allows the use of its open- source projects free of cost, but the package doesn’t include the management suite Cloudera Manager or any other proprietary software.
• Cloudera has a free 60-day trial, Hortonworks is completely free.

Cloudera has been the oldest player in the market, with more than 350 customers. But Hortonworks is fast catching up and has made more innovations in the Hadoop ecosystem in the recent past. Cloudera has several enterprise softwares overlaid on its open source distributions to aid the consumers, whereas Hortonworks strives to provide a framework comprising only of open source projects.