About Cloudera

Cloudera provides a hybrid data and AI platform that runs on-premises and across public clouds, covering data engineering, warehousing, streaming and machine learning. It grew from the Hadoop ecosystem and merged with Hortonworks in 2019. It has been privately held since 2021.

Common use cases

  • Hadoop modernization
  • Regulated-industry analytics
  • Data lakehouse
  • Private-cloud AI

Products and services

Cloudera Data Platform

Hybrid data platform for public cloud and on-premises.

Cloudera Data Warehouse

SQL analytics service.

Cloudera Data Engineering

Spark-based pipeline service.

Cloudera AI

Machine learning and generative AI workbench.

Cloudera DataFlow

NiFi-based data movement.

Key features

  • Hybrid deployment
  • Shared security and governance
  • Data lakehouse
  • Spark pipelines
  • Streaming ingestion
  • Machine learning tools

Integrations

  • AWS
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Apache Iceberg
  • NVIDIA
  • Kafka
  • Spark
  • Tableau

Cloudera alternatives

FAQs

Can it run on-premises?

Yes. Hybrid and on-premises deployment is a main differentiator.

Who owns Cloudera?

Private equity firms KKR and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, since 2021.

How is it priced?

Subscription, typically via enterprise contracts.

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