One Cloudera India platform across cloud and your own racks.
How a Mumbai NBFC retired an ageing Hadoop cluster, kept every record inside India, and put its analytics and AI on one governed Cloudera platform. Story below.
Cloudera Hybrid Data Platform at a glance
Why Cloudera anchors most Indian hybrid data platform estates.
- OEM
- Cloudera, Inc., Santa Clara, California. Privately held since Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and KKR took the company private in 2021, in the shape formed by the 2019 Cloudera and Hortonworks merger. Sirius Star scopes, licenses and runs it for Indian enterprises from Navi Mumbai.
- What it is
- The Cloudera Data Platform (CDP): one governed platform for data engineering, warehousing, streaming and AI that runs the same way in public cloud and inside your own datacentre.
- Why teams pick it
- Hybrid with real data residency. CDP Public Cloud runs inside your own cloud account so data never leaves your tenancy, and CDP Private Cloud runs on your own racks. One governance and lineage layer covers both.
- Core technology
- An open Apache Iceberg lakehouse across Data Warehouse, Data Engineering and Cloudera AI, with SDX for shared security and governance and DataFlow (Apache NiFi) for streaming ingest.
- New in 2026
- A Lakehouse Optimizer that tunes Iceberg tables on its own for faster queries and lower storage, Cloud Bursting from private to public without copying data, and Private AI that brings models to governed data. Support is committed to 2032.
- India reach
- Sold in India on an enterprise subscription through the channel to banks, NBFCs, telecom, manufacturing and public sector, not off a shelf. Deploys into Indian cloud regions or your own datacentre for in-country data.
- Sirius Star role
- We survey your data estate, size the CDP design, split public and private for residency, migrate you off legacy CDH or HDP onto an Iceberg lakehouse, set governance for DPDP, and run it from Navi Mumbai.
The Cloudera Hybrid Data Platform ranges Sirius Star supplies
Pick the range that matches the use case. We size the mix in the free 30-minute review.
CDP Private Cloud
Governed data services on your own racks. The reason regulated Indian firms pick Cloudera.
- Runs inside your own datacentre
- Data never leaves the building or the country
- Data warehouse, engineering and AI delivered as services
- One governance layer shared with public cloud
CDP Public Cloud
The same platform deployed inside your own cloud account in Indian regions.
- Deploys into your own cloud tenancy
- Data stays in your account and your region
- Elastic compute you pay for when it runs
- Cloud Bursting from private to public without copies
Cloudera AI
Bring AI to governed data where it already lives. Formerly Cloudera Machine Learning.
- Build and serve models next to your own data
- Keep data, models and inference under your governance
- Retrieval on your own Iceberg tables
- No data shipped out to an outside model service
Data Warehouse, Engineering & DataFlow
The working layers. SQL analytics, Spark pipelines and NiFi streaming on one open lakehouse.
- SQL analytics on open Iceberg tables
- Spark pipelines for data engineering
- NiFi flows for streaming ingest
- Lakehouse Optimizer tunes tables on its own
Cloudera Hybrid Data Platform vs Databricks, Snowflake, Cloud-native
All four are honest choices. Most Indian buyers land on the first option for service depth and ecosystem fit.
| Brand | Where it wins | Best fit |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudera | The true hybrid platform. The same governed stack in public cloud and on your own racks, on an open Iceberg lakehouse, with data staying in your tenancy. | Regulated Indian enterprises in BFSI, telecom and public sector that need data residency and a real on-prem option. |
| Databricks | A strong cloud lakehouse for data engineering and AI, with deep Spark and MLflow roots. | Cloud-first teams whose data can live in the vendor’s cloud plane and who lead with data science. |
| Snowflake | A polished, easy-to-run cloud data warehouse that scales analytics well. | Teams that want a managed cloud warehouse and can keep data in the vendor’s cloud. |
| Cloud-native (BigQuery, Synapse, Redshift) | Native to one cloud, with low friction if you are all-in on that provider. | Single-cloud shops with no on-prem estate or residency constraint. |
How a Sirius Star Cloudera procurement runs
Free 30 minute review first. Then a written quote in 24 working hours.
Data and estate survey
Free. We map your data sources, your current Hadoop or cloud clusters, and where residency rules apply.
Platform design and quote
We size the CDP design, split public and private, pick the services, then quote in 24 working hours.
Migrate and govern
We move you off CDH or HDP onto CDP with Iceberg tables, set SDX governance for DPDP, and cut over in stages.
Run and review
We watch the clusters, tune the lakehouse, control cost, and review the design as data and AI grow.
Modernising a data platform in India, a field guide
The deeper read for CIOs, heads of data and analytics leaders who are done nursing an ageing Hadoop cluster.
- The full Mumbai NBFC data-residency migration story
- Four buyer questions before you pick a data platform
- An 8-point data-platform modernisation checklist
- Four moves that keep data governed and in-country
Cloudera Hybrid Data Platform India FAQ
Common questions about this brand for Indian buyers. Hover any underlined term for a plain-English definition.
What is Cloudera and what does it do for an Indian enterprise?
Cloudera is a hybrid data and AI platform. The Cloudera Data Platform runs data engineering, warehousing, streaming and AI on one governed stack, the same way in public cloud and inside your own datacentre. For an Indian enterprise the point is that data can stay in your own cloud account or on your racks, inside the country, while analytics and AI run on an open Iceberg lakehouse. Send Sirius Star your data sources and residency rules and we return a scoped quote in 24 working hours.
Can Cloudera keep our data inside India?
Yes, and that is the main reason regulated Indian firms pick it. CDP Public Cloud deploys inside your own AWS, Azure or Google Cloud account in an Indian region, so data never leaves your tenancy. CDP Private Cloud runs on your own racks, so data never leaves the building. One governance and lineage layer, SDX, covers both, which is what an auditor asks about under the DPDP Act. Sirius Star configures the residency split for you.
How is Cloudera priced in India?
Cloudera is an enterprise subscription, not a per-seat retail price. It is sized by the compute you run, the services you turn on and whether you deploy public, private or both, billed on a contract. As an indicative guide*, a serious enterprise platform lands in the tens of lakhs per year and up, but the honest figure comes from a short scoping call about your data volumes and environments. After that call Sirius Star returns a written quote in 24 working hours.
We run an old CDH or HDP cluster. Can Cloudera help us move off it?
Yes. CDH and HDP are the older Hadoop distributions that merged into Cloudera, and CDP is the modern path off them. Sirius Star surveys your existing cluster, plans a staged migration onto CDP with Apache Iceberg tables, keeps governance intact, and cuts over without a big-bang switch. You keep your data and your history, and you land on a platform with support committed to 2032.
What does Sirius Star do beyond selling the licence?
We do the work around the platform. We survey your data estate, size the CDP design, split public and private for residency, migrate you off legacy Hadoop onto an Iceberg lakehouse, and set SDX governance for DPDP. After go-live we run the clusters, tune the lakehouse, watch cost and review the design as your data and AI workloads grow. The work is run from Vashi, Navi Mumbai, with a written 24 working hours quote SLA.
Ready for a Cloudera platform quote?
Tell us your data sources, your residency rules and what you run today. Sirius Star sizes the CDP design and plans the move off legacy Hadoop.
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