Cloudera Eases the Path for Analytics on Apache Hadoop with the General Availability of Cloudera Navigator Optimizer and Cloudera Enterprise 5.8

SINGAPORE, July 25, 2016 — Cloudera,
the global provider of the fastest, easiest, and most secure data management
and analytics platform built on Apache Hadoop and the latest open source
technologies, today announced the general availability of Cloudera Navigator
Optimizer, alongside the production release of Cloudera Enterprise 5.8. Since
the announcement of
the limited beta release of Navigator Optimizer, the tool has proven essential
for customers looking to modernize their
analytic database or augment their data warehouse solution with Hadoop,
providing the necessary insights for predictably offloading key workloads.
Additionally, this tool provides database administrators the usage visibility
to actively manage Hadoop data models and guidance to optimize query performance.
Now generally available, customers looking to power their analytic workloads
with Cloudera Enterprise can benefit from this unique tool to ease their path
for Hadoop success. Complemented by the release of Cloudera Enterprise 5.8,
which includes cloud-native support for high-performance analytics and a
powerful SQL development experience, these unrivaled capabilities make great
strides for Cloudera’s Hadoop platform as a modern analytic database.

“Across our customers, adopting Cloudera Enterprise as a Hadoop-based
analytic database is one of the most popular use cases. Cloudera’s platform –
leveraging best-of-breed technologies such as Hive-on-Spark and Impala – brings
new scale, flexibility, and performance to these analytic workloads including
ETL, BI, and exploratory analytics,” says Charles Zedlewski, vice president,
Products at Cloudera. “To help our customers more effectively get on the path
for Hadoop success, we’re excited to provide Cloudera Navigator Optimizer as a
unique new tool. It provides the visibility and guidance necessary to help
decrease the development costs when offloading to Hadoop and actively optimize
these workloads for peak performance.”

Hadoop has proven itself as a strong complement to
existing enterprise data warehouses (EDW), able to relieve the pressures of
these systems, while enabling new workloads. Additionally, with Impala as the
interactive SQL engine, Cloudera’s platform provides a high-performance,
scalable alternative to traditional analytic databases – allowing businesses to
tap into more value from more data, faster, and with more flexibility. However,
effectively offloading key workloads to Hadoop isn’t always easy, especially
when organizations have millions of queries generated of varying complexity.
Businesses need to be able to identify the most suitable workloads for each
system and develop a predictable offload strategy. Cloudera Navigator Optimizer
eases the path for offloading the right workloads to Hadoop by analyzing
existing SQL jobs and providing the instant insights and risk-assessments
necessary to build out a
comprehensive strategy and plan for offloading based on risk and development
costs.

Once active with
Hadoop, Navigator Optimizer provides usage-level visibility into these Hadoop
workloads so database administrators can actively manage and recommend data
models based on changing needs. Built-in optimization guidance for Apache Hive
and Apache Impala (incubating) also enables peak performance for faster data
preparation, BI, and exploratory analytics.

Further enhancing the capabilities of Cloudera Enterprise
as a modern analytic database solution, the Cloudera 5.8 also includes:

Cloudera Enterprise 5.8 is now
available for download and Cloudera Navigator Optimizer is
available with the appropriate user license at optimizer.cloudera.com.
Cloudera also offers world-class
Data Analyst training for businesses looking to get started
with Cloudera Enterprise as their analytic database solution.