Cloudera, once a leader in the Hadoop ecosystem, is now a hybrid data management vendor utilizing lakehouse, data mesh, and data fabric architectures with built-in support for the latest open frameworks for analytics, AI, and stream processing. Cloudera’s Data Platform (CDP) encourages users to deploy the platform in a modern hybrid fashion, utilizing cloud object storage systems separated from compute, with Cloudera’s SDX software handling security and governance across complex data topologies. Cloudera is trying to keep up with the rapid pace of technological evolution while also keeping its legacy installed base of Hadoop users happy.
