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Cloudera Data Platform vs Couchbase Capella comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Cloudera Data Platform
Ranking in AI Data Analysis
5th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Master Data Management (MDM) (6th), Data Management Platforms (DMP) (4th)
Couchbase Capella
Ranking in AI Data Analysis
30th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
8.2
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Database as a Service (DBaaS) (17th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the AI Data Analysis category, the mindshare of Cloudera Data Platform is 0.5%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Couchbase Capella is 0.4%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Data Analysis Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Cloudera Data Platform0.5%
Couchbase Capella0.4%
Other99.1%
AI Data Analysis
 

Featured Reviews

T Sarwar - PeerSpot reviewer
Data architect at SentientAI, Karachi
Has enabled efficient big data processing and querying but remains complex to manage and configure
Cloudera Data Platform should use fewer tools and remove the complexity between them. It should make it easier for the end user to change the configuration and understand it better. The UI tool for jobs in Cloudera Data Platform can be improved to provide a proper image of ETL jobs and detailed consolidated graphs to monitor Spark-based Hue jobs.
PranavVighe - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant Data Engineer at IRT Digital Analytics
Real-time customer analytics has boosted performance and simplified flexible JSON operations
I believe that the documentation should be increased, and features such as vector AI search and other AI capabilities need improvement for Couchbase Capella. I would say that there is a need for developer experience enhancements, including a simpler user interface, better debugging, SQL++ guidance, and more visibility into granular workload-level costs while reporting. Couchbase Capella can improve the accuracy and reliability of its AI output. Though it is not guaranteed that the large language model answer will be correct, improvements can be made by grounding the large language models and controlling parameters such as temperature to provide better results.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The product offers a fairly easy setup process."
"Hortonworks is 100% Open Source."
"Cloudera Data Platform proved to be a highly reliable and powerful solution capable of supporting complex enterprise use cases on AWS with strong governance and scalability."
"Cloudera Data Platform has significantly improved our data management."
"Ranger for security; with Ranger we can manager user’s permissions/access controls very easily."
"The most valuable part of this product is what Cloudera Data Science Workbench can do as a whole for modeling and analysis."
"Customer service is great."
"Hadoop/Cloudera is still much cheaper than Oracle's RDBM system, if you want to handle a huge amount of data and make complex analytics."
"For specifics, I can say that performance is 80% faster, with a four-fold increase in throughput requests and application availability uptime rising from 99.9% to 99.9999%, and the application can now handle three times more traffic."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"The way the nodes are managed is interesting."
 

Cons

"There have been some governance initiatives, but they are far from production ready."
"Hadoop, does not provide improved performance, compared to traditional RDBMS, unless processing batches in the TB-PB range, or if the Hadoop platform has significantly more resources available."
"Scalability of Cloudera Data Platform is very good and scalable in public cloud. However, it is not as scalable on on-premises private cloud, which adds considerable cost."
"Cloudera Data Platform could improve by innovating more in terms of full-fledged support for AI workloads, enriching machine learning or LLM, as there haven't been updates in that aspect over the last one and a half years."
"The cost of the solution is high and there is room for improvement."
"Deleting any service requires a lot of clean up, unlike Cloudera."
"It would also be nice if there were less coding involved."
"We have had problems with the backup and with services that require a disaster site."
"Rebalancing could be improved."
"I believe that the documentation should be increased, and features such as vector AI search and other AI capabilities need improvement for Couchbase Capella."
"The product could be improved by including a log section for tracking activities, enhancing database integration, and providing more transparency regarding pricing and monitoring activities."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is priced well and it is affordable"
"Currently, we are using the product in a sandbox environment, and there is no licensing. We might choose a licensing option once we get the results."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Construction Company
9%
Construction Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
16%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise7
Large Enterprise26
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Hortonworks Data Platform?
The experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is very good.
What needs improvement with Hortonworks Data Platform?
Areas for improvement with Cloudera Data Platform could be the initial learning curve that can be a step for teams new to big data economy systems. Platform setup and configuration require careful ...
What is your primary use case for Hortonworks Data Platform?
Cloudera Data Platform on AWS was adopted as the core enterprise data platform, covering the full data lifecycle from ingestion to analytics and advanced use cases. Cloudera Data Platform was used ...
What needs improvement with Couchbase Capella?
I believe that the documentation should be increased, and features such as vector AI search and other AI capabilities need improvement for Couchbase Capella. I would say that there is a need for de...
What is your primary use case for Couchbase Capella?
My main use case for Couchbase Capella involves handling data, data analytics, and performing operations with flexible JSON data where low latency is required in real-time applications such as cust...
What advice do you have for others considering Couchbase Capella?
My advice to others considering Couchbase Capella would be that if your primary use case involves handling flexible JSON with horizontal scaling and near low-latency access, then you should conside...
 

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