Cloudera

About Cloudera

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Cloudera

All products by Cloudera reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

Verta AIMachine Learning Platforms

Enterprise MLOps and AI — now part of Cloudera AI

Free7.1/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Cloudera

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Cloudera's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 2.0 points — The Finance Lead was the hardest to convince, The Decision Maker the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Cloudera competes with, and how they differ.

Databricks8.4/10

Lakehouse-native and cloud-only, built around Spark and Delta Lake with a heavier AI/ML-platform focus, versus Cloudera's hybrid on-prem-plus-multi-cloud positioning for regulated enterprises that cannot fully move to the public cloud.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Snowflake Inc.8.3/10

A cloud-only data warehouse with a simpler consumption-based pricing model, competing for the same enterprise analytics workloads but without Cloudera's on-premises/hybrid deployment options.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Amazon Web Services, Inc.8.3/10

Offers data-lake and analytics services (EMR, Redshift, Glue) natively inside AWS, competing on price and integration depth for customers already committed to a single cloud, versus Cloudera's cloud-agnostic hybrid platform.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

IBM7.7/10

Sells data and AI governance through Cloud Pak for Data and watsonx atop IBM's broader enterprise software and consulting relationships, competing most directly in regulated industries (finance, government) that also drive Cloudera's hybrid pitch.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

DataRobot7.5/10

Focuses narrowly on automated ML model-building and MLOps rather than the underlying data platform, overlapping specifically with the operational-AI capabilities Cloudera acquired through Verta.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Cloudera's history, with sources.

1. Nov 14, 2024Acquisition

   Agrees to acquire Octopai for data lineage

   Cloudera entered a definitive agreement to acquire Octopai, an Israeli data-lineage and catalog startup, extending metadata management and governance across Cloudera's hybrid data estate.

   bigdatawire.com
2. Jun 3, 2024Acquisition

   Acquires Verta's operational AI platform

   Cloudera acquired Verta, an MIT-spinout startup backed by Intel Capital and General Catalyst that manages and governs machine learning and generative AI models; Verta's team, including CEO Manasi Vartak, joined Cloudera's machine learning group.

   techcrunch.com
3. Oct 8, 2021Acquisition

   Take-private deal completes; delists from NYSE

   Cloudera completed its acquisition by private equity firms Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $5.3 billion; Cloudera stock ceased trading on the NYSE and the company became privately held, continuing under CEO Rob Bearden.

   prnewswire.com
4. Jun 1, 2021Milestone

   Enters $5.3B take-private agreement with CD&R and KKR

   Cloudera entered a definitive agreement to be acquired by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR for approximately $5.3 billion in cash ($16.00/share, a 24% premium), taking the company private.

   sec.gov
5. Jan 3, 2019Acquisition

   Completes merger of equals with Hortonworks

   Cloudera completed its roughly $1.2 billion all-stock merger of equals with rival Hadoop vendor Hortonworks, consolidating the two largest independent big-data platform companies into "the new Cloudera."

   marketscreener.com
6. Apr 28, 2017Milestone

   IPOs on the NYSE under ticker CLDR

   Cloudera priced its IPO at $15/share, raising $225 million and debuting on the New York Stock Exchange under "CLDR" at an approximate $1.9 billion market valuation.

   fool.com
7. Mar 31, 2014Funding

   Intel invests $740M at a $4.1B valuation

   Intel invested approximately $740 million for an 18% stake in Cloudera as part of a strategic technology partnership, valuing the then-private company at $4.1 billion and closing out a $900 million financing round.

   techcrunch.com