1.云时代：
Cloudera 于 2008 年由谷歌、雅虎、甲骨文和 Facebook 等大数据天才的一些最聪明的头脑创立。它基于开源 Apache Hadoop，但添加了自己的专有软件。它提供免费和付费分发以及额外的功能和支持。 Cloudera 的长期成就是成为企业数据中心，从而减少/消除对数据仓库的需求。它支持 MapReduce 和 YARN。自 Hadoop 创建以来，它已经存在的时间最长。 Cloudera Distribution Hadoop (CDH) 能够向正在运行的 Hadoop 集群添加新服务并支持多集群管理。
2. 地图：
MapR 由 MC Srivas 的 John Schroeder 于 2009 年创立。它是一个数据平台，可以从单个计算机集群访问多个数据源，包括大数据工作负载，例如 Apache Hadoop 和 Apache Spark、 Hive和 Drill 等。它以速度、规模和可靠性执行分析和应用程序。 Cisco、Google Cloud Platform 和 Amazon EMR 等大公司将 MapR Hadoop Distribution 用于其 Hadoop 服务。 MapR Hadoop Distribution (MapRHD) 遵循分布式架构，用于在处理节点上存储元数据，因为它依赖于不同的文件系统，称为 MapR 文件系统或简称为 MapRFS，并且没有名称节点架构。
Cloudera 和 MapR 的区别：
| S.No. | CLOUDERA | MAPR |
|---|---|---|
| 01. | Cloudera is founded in 2008 by some of the brightest minds from the big data geniuses including Google, Yahoo!, Oracle, and Facebook. | MapR is founded in 2009 by John Schroeder, M.C. Sivas. |
| 02. | It is based on open source Apache Hadoop but has added its own proprietary software. | It is a data platform which provides access to a variety of data sources from a single computer cluster including big data workloads such as Apache Hadoop, Hive and Drill, Apache Spark, but it goes far beyond that as well. |
| 03. | The management tool of Cloudera is Cloudera Manager. | The management tool of MapR is MapR Control System. |
| 04. | Cloudera has no volume support. | MapR has volume support. |
| 05. | For disaster recovery and backup it uses regular Backup and Disaster Recovery (BDR) features. | For disaster recovery it uses mirroring features. |
| 06. | Cloudera replication allows data to be replicated. | MapR Replication allows data plus metadata to be replicated. |
| 07. | Cloudera has centralized metadata architecture. | MapR has distributed metadata architecture. |
| 08. | File system access in cloudera is Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and read only NFS. | File system access in MapR is Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and read write NFS (POSIX). |
| 09. | It uses Kerberos write level authentication. | It uses Kerberos, Native write level authentication. |
| 10. | Cloudera has three editions one is free, another enterprise edition up to 60 days and full enterprise edition. | It has completely enterprise edition. |
| 11. | It runs on Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). | MAPR runs on MapR File System (MAPRFS). |