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.[1] 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, Pig, HBase, Sqoop, Flume, Oozie, ZooKeeper and Hue and is available free under an Apache license. 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.[2] The launch was first announced by the New York Times.[3]
In May 2010, Cloudera was named by Thomson Reuters’ Venture Capital Journal as the most promising startup funded in 2009.[4]
The preferred demonym for an employee of Cloudera is "Clouderan."