About Cloudera
Cloudera is an enterprise data platform company with roots in the Hadoop and Spark ecosystem. Its current pitch is a hybrid platform that brings analytics and AI to data wherever it already lives, whether in public clouds, in company data centers or at the edge.
The product list is broad. It includes Data Flow and Streaming for data in motion, an open data lakehouse built around Apache Iceberg, plus data engineering, an operational database and a data warehouse. On top of these sit AI offerings such as inference, studios, assistants and a workbench, along with a shared data experience that provides a data catalog, lineage and observability.
Cloudera is proprietary commercial software sold to large organizations in sectors such as financial services, healthcare, telecommunications and the public sector. A pricing page and demos are available on the vendor site, and sales contact details are published for enterprise inquiries.
Key features
- Hybrid deployment across cloud, data center and edge
- Open data lakehouse built on Apache Iceberg
- Streaming and data flow for data in motion
- Data engineering, warehouse and operational database
- Data catalog, lineage and observability
- AI inference, studios and workbench
Good fit for
- →Modernizing Hadoop-era data platforms
- →Governed analytics across cloud and on-premises data
- →Streaming ingestion from IoT and edge devices
- Tags
- data-platform
- hybrid-cloud
- lakehouse
- hadoop
- spark
- iceberg
- data-engineering
- enterprise
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