Cloudera Object Store

Name: Cloudera Object Store
Brand: Cloudera
Rating: 4.4 (248 reviews)

Cloudera Object Store is an on-premises/hybrid object storage layer for analytics and AI workloads that provides S3-compatible and Hadoop-compatible filesystem access to support mixed SQL, Spark, and machine-learning workloads.

Est 2008|Valuation $4.7B|Raised $572.3M

LinkedIn 300K|Website|Web traffic 339K|FTEs 3,484|HQ Santa Clara, California, US

MarketsData Warehouses & Lakehouses

01Competitive Landscape

Narrative analysis

Areas where Cloudera Object Store aligns with customer needs:

Continuity for existing Hadoop workloads: it provides an in-stack migration path for Hive, Spark, and related services.
Dual access model: combined S3 API and Hadoop filesystem compatibility can be useful during transitions.
Designed to address HDFS namespace scaling limits.

Areas where competitors may have advantages:

Standalone object storage vendors can be simpler to deploy and operate when the requirement is only object storage and not a full analytics platform.
Some competitors provide clearer public feature matrices for S3 semantics and offer operations models focused solely on object storage.

Areas where Cloudera Object Store aligns with customer needs: - Continuity for existing Hadoop workloads: it provides an in-stack migration path for Hive, Spark, and related services. - Dual access model: combined S3 API and Hadoop filesystem compatibility can be useful during transitions. - Designed to address HDFS namespace scaling limits. Areas where competitors may have advantages: - Standalone object storage vendors can be simpler to deploy and operate when the requirement is only object storage and not a full analytics platform. - Some competitors provide clearer public feature matrices for S3 semantics and offer operations models focused solely on object storage.

Market adoption and partnership signals

Third-party coverage indicates that Cloudera supports patterns where customers may use alternative object stores (for example, Dell ObjectScale) in conjunction with Cloudera workloads, providing flexibility for organizations that prefer a dedicated storage vendor.

	Cloudera Object Store	MinIO	Cloudian HyperStore
Starting Price	Not publicly listed (typically quote-based as part of CDP)	Enterprise pricing typically quote-based; community edition exists	Pricing varies widely; reseller/partner pricing artifacts available
Primary deployment model	Integrated with CDP for analytics/hybrid on-prem workloads	S3-first object store suitable for many application types	Enterprise S3-compatible object storage with appliance and partner ecosystem
Key strengths	Integration with Hadoop ecosystem and CDP governance/security stack; migration path from HDFS	S3-first focus and broad application compatibility	Enterprise appliances, multi-site features, mature S3-focused tooling
Key weaknesses	Access and evaluation friction; operational complexity when used as part of CDP	Requires careful design for erasure coding and multi-site scenarios	Pricing/packaging complexity; potential appliance-related vendor lock-in