Cloudera Inc. is a Palo Alto-based enterprise software company which provides Apache Hadoop-based software and services. It contributes to Hadoop and related Apache projects and provides a distribution for Hadoop for the enterprise. Cloudera has two products: Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) and Cloudera Enterprise. CDH is a data management platform which incorporates HDFS, Hadoop MapReduce, Hive

Apache Hive

Apache Hive is a data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop for providing data summarization, query, and analysis. While initially developed by Facebook, Apache Hive is now used and developed by other companies such as Netflix...

, Pig

Pig (programming language)

Pigis a high-level platform for creating MapReduce programs used with Hadoop. The language for this platform is called Pig Latin. Pig Latin abstracts the programming from the Java MapReduce idiom into a notation which makes MapReduce programming high level, similar to that of SQL for RDBMS...

, HBase

HBase

HBase is an open source, non-relational, distributed database modeled after Google's BigTable and is written in Java. It is developed as part of Apache Software Foundation's Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS , providing BigTable-like capabilities for Hadoop...

, Sqoop, Flume, Oozie, ZooKeeper

Apache ZooKeeper

Apache ZooKeeper is a software project of the Apache Software Foundation, providing an open source centralized configuration service and naming registry for large distributed systems. ZooKeeper is a sub project of Hadoop....

 and Hue and is available free under an Apache license

Apache License

The Apache License is a copyfree free software license authored by the Apache Software Foundation . The Apache License requires preservation of the copyright notice and disclaimer....

. Cloudera Enterprise is a package which includes Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop, production support and tools designed to make it easier to run Hadoop in a production environment. Cloudera offers services including support, consulting services and training (both public and private).

In March 2009, Cloudera announced the availability of CDH in conjunction with a $5 million capital injection led by Accel Partners

Accel Partners

Accel Partners is a global venture and growth equity firm funding companies from inception through the growth stage.The firm is based in Palo Alto, California with major offices in Bangalore, Beijing, London, and Shanghai....

. The launch was first announced by the New York Times.

In May 2010, Cloudera was named by Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters Corporation is a provider of information for the world's businesses and professionals and is created by the Thomson Corporation's purchase of Reuters Group on 17 April 2008. Thomson Reuters is headquartered at 3 Times Square, New York City, USA...

’ Venture Capital Journal

Venture capital journal

The Venture Capital Journal, or VCJ, is a monthly glossy magazine that covers investment trends, financing techniques and news from across the Venture Capital industry. The magazine, founded in 1961, focuses on venture capital and features expert analysis and commentary...

 as the most promising startup funded in 2009.

The preferred demonym

Demonym

A demonym , also referred to as a gentilic, is a name for a resident of a locality. A demonym is usually – though not always – derived from the name of the locality; thus, the demonym for the people of England is English, and the demonym for the people of Italy is Italian, yet, in english, the one...

 for an employee of Cloudera is "Clouderan."

See also

• Apache Software Foundation
  Apache Software Foundation
  The Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, U.S., in June 1999.The Apache Software Foundation is a decentralized community of developers...
  
  
• Big data
  Big data
  Big data are datasets that grow so large that they become awkward to work with using on-hand database management tools. Difficulties include capture, storage, search, sharing, analytics, and visualizing...
  
  
• BigTable
  BigTable
  BigTable is a compressed, high performance, and proprietary database system built on Google File System , Chubby Lock Service, SSTable and a few other Google technologies; it is currently not distributed nor is it used outside of Google, although Google offers access to it as part of their Google...
  
  
• Cloud computing
  Cloud computing
  Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
  
  
• Cloud infrastructure
• Database-centric architecture
  Database-centric architecture
  Database-centric architecture or data-centric architecture has several distinct meanings, generally relating to software architectures in which databases play a crucial role. Often this description is meant to contrast the design to an alternative approach...
  
  
• Datastructure
• Hadoop
  Hadoop
  Apache Hadoop is a software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license. It enables applications to work with thousands of nodes and petabytes of data...
  
  
• MapReduce
  MapReduce
  MapReduce is a software framework introduced by Google in 2004 to support distributed computing on large data sets on clusters of computers. Parts of the framework are patented in some countries....
  
  
• HBase
  HBase
  HBase is an open source, non-relational, distributed database modeled after Google's BigTable and is written in Java. It is developed as part of Apache Software Foundation's Apache Hadoop project and runs on top of HDFS , providing BigTable-like capabilities for Hadoop...
  
  
• Online database
  Online database
  An online database is a database accessible from a network, including from the Internet.It differs from a local database, held in an individual computer or its attached storage, such as a CD....
  
  
• Real time database
  Real time database
  A real-time database is a processing system designed to handle workloads whose state is constantly changing . This differs from traditional databases containing persistent data, mostly unaffected by time. For example, a stock market changes very rapidly and is dynamic...