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Cloudera Data Lake Service
Silicon Valley, California, USA
What it is
Cloudera Data Lake Service provides metadata, governance, access-control, and audit capabilities for data lake workloads. It captures schema and metadata definitions discovered or created by platform workloads. Teams can search metadata, follow lineage and chain of custody, classify and profile data, and maintain a business glossary. Security features include role- and attribute-based policies, unauthorized-access auditing, and encryption at rest and in motion with key management. Apache Ranger can set access rules at database, table, column, and file levels, including conditions such as time or geolocation. Apache Knox supplies a protected single sign-on gateway for Data Lake and Cloudera Data Platform interfaces. Each Data Lake cluster includes Hive Metastore, Apache Ranger, Apache Atlas, and Apache Knox. Cloudera supports light-duty and enterprise Data Lakes on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Listed capabilities also include SQL analytics, streaming ingestion, data sharing, open table formats, hosted notebooks, workflow automation, and model deployment. The pricing note lists a starting figure of $0.20, while the plan is also described as Contact Sales for pricing. Cloud prices exclude infrastructure and networking costs.
For and against
For
- Captures schema and metadata definitions automatically.
- Supports metadata search, lineage, classification, and profiling.
- Applies access policies down to column and file levels.
- Includes a protected single sign-on gateway.
- Supports AWS, Azure, and GCP Data Lakes.
Against
- No free plan is listed.
- Plan pricing is described as Contact Sales for pricing.
- Cloud prices exclude infrastructure and networking costs.
- The listed pricing note does not specify a billing term.
The verdict
Cloudera Data Lake Service combines governance and security controls with metadata and lineage capabilities. Confirm pricing details, including cloud infrastructure and networking costs, before choosing it.
Who it suits
It suits organizations that need governance, metadata management, and access controls alongside data lake workloads. The listed cloud availability covers AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Plans and prices
Cloudera Data Lake Service
Pricing not listed on the Data Lake Service page
Read 30 Sep 2026 · cloudera.com
On the record
- Access controls
- Apache Ranger policies can control access at database, table, column, and file levels and can apply dynamic conditions such as time or geolocation.docs.cloudera.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- API access
- Data Lake API endpoints are available from the Endpoints tab in the Cloudera Management Console.docs.cloudera.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Cloud availability
- Cloudera supports light-duty and enterprise Data Lakes for AWS, Azure, and GCP.docs.cloudera.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Governance
- Supports metadata search, lineage and chain-of-custody auditing, classification, profiling, and a business glossary.cloudera.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Integrated services
- A Data Lake cluster includes Hive Metastore, Apache Ranger, Apache Atlas, and Apache Knox services.docs.cloudera.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Pricing detail
- The pricing page lists on-premises Cloudera Data Services as Contact Sales for pricing and says cloud prices exclude infrastructure and networking costs.cloudera.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- Provides capabilities for data schema and metadata, metadata governance and management, data access authorization and authentication, and compliance-ready access auditing.cloudera.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Schema and metadata
- Automatically captures and stores schema and metadata definitions discovered or created by platform workloads.cloudera.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Security
- Supports granular, dynamic, role- and attribute-based security policies, auditing of unauthorized access, and encryption at rest and in motion with key management.cloudera.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Single sign-on
- Apache Knox provides a protected gateway for single sign-on to Data Lake and Cloudera Data Platform user interfaces.cloudera.com · read 30 Sep 2026
- Support
- Cloudera’s product page points users to product support, community, documentation, and downloads, and invites them to book a demo.cloudera.com · read 30 Sep 2026
