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Cloudera Open Data Lakehouse
Make your data work for you. Deliver trusted, reliable, and unified data to fuel agents, AI apps, and analytics. Improve collaboration, break silos, and simplify sharing.
OVERVIEW
Is your data unified, secure, open, and ready for AI?
Combine the flexibility of a data lake with the performance of a data warehouse to deliver AI and analytics more quickly at reduced costs.
Improve collaboration across teams with an open-source, open standard-based lakehouse powered by Apache Iceberg.
Take control over your data with unified security, governance, metadata, end-to-end lineage, and a single control plane.
Accelerate AI and analytics with intelligent automations, easy tooling, and built-in data ingestion and pipelining capabilities.
ANALYST REPORT
The Forrester WaveTM: Data Lakehouses, Q3 2026
Cloudera named a Leader for the first time
Ebook
Migrating to Apache® Iceberg For Dummies
USE CASES
Deliver trusted data for AI and analytics.
Use real-time, unified data to power your AI, align data to your use cases securely and privately, and build trustworthy AI applications and agents.
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Deliver AI-ready data for building agents and AI powered applications
Modernize your data platform: increase data reliability, security, and accessibility.
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Build a streaming-enabled lakehouse to deliver fresh insights to business
Connect streaming sources for near real-time decisions.
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Deploy open, interoperable, zero-ETL and zero-data copy lakehouse
Share data easily and securely within different business units and partners without ever copying the data.
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Modernize your data infrastructure with a hybrid data lakehouse
Get a unified control plane and full portability of workloads.
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Deliver AI-ready data for building agents and AI powered applications
Modernize your data platform: increase data reliability, security, and accessibility.
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Build a streaming-enabled lakehouse to deliver fresh insights to business
Connect streaming sources for near real-time decisions.
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Deploy open, interoperable, zero-ETL and zero-data copy lakehouse
Share data easily and securely within different business units and partners without ever copying the data.
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Modernize your data infrastructure with a hybrid data lakehouse
Get a unified control plane and full portability of workloads.
Build a unified, modular platform powered by Apache Iceberg that provides comprehensive security and governance.
Deliver reliable, reproducible, and explainable data products that can be used with confidence in any AI and analytics workloads.
Distribute high-velocity data from 450+ processors for continuous, real-time processing and analysis.
Ingest and process data in motion and deliver real-time context to models and build near real-time dashboards for business.
75%
reduction in TCO
Reduce total cost of ownership and save in compute, storage, and operational costs.
Optimize your cloud data warehouse spend by running any engine—Cloudera engines, open-source engines, or any Iceberg-compatible third-party engines—on Cloudera’s Open Data Lakehouse.
+200%
return on investment
Deploy Apache Iceberg on premises or in the public cloud—same experience, same data services, unified metadata.
Access on-premises data using cloud compute without copying or moving the data in the cloud.
Bring compute and AI to your data, wherever it originates. Run best-of-breed engines from ingest, preparation, analyze, and share on a single copy of data without unnecessary transformations and costs.
Deliver engine-neutral, high-performance Iceberg tables with built-in intelligent optimizations. Get 2-4x faster queries and up to 50% reduction in compute costs with intelligent, automated optimizations to your lakehouse.
Extend the metastore to integrate Iceberg REST Catalog specifications to allow any third-party Iceberg-compatible engine to securely access data in the lakehouse without data movement.
Democratize data access with fine-grained role and attribute-based policies. Increase data reliability by automatically tracking end-to-end lineage, sharing data securely, and proactively protecting your sensitive data.
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CUSTOMERS
Transforming data and unlocking new AI use cases.
telecommunications
Eutelsat Group
telecommunications
LG Uplus
public sector
CDC
Interoperability
Cloudera's data lakehouse interoperates with the following engines through the Iceberg REST Catalog:
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Open Data Lakehouse free training
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Open Data Lakehouse documentation
Dive into the details of how to get up and running with Cloudera Open Data Lakehouse.
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