Ever since Cloudera and Hortonworks merged, the choice of commercial Hadoop distributions for on-prem workloads essentially boils down to CDP Private Cloud. CDP can be seen as the “best of both worlds” between CDH and HDP. With HDP 3.1’s End of Support coming in December 2021, Cloudera’s clients are “forced” to migrate to CDP.

What about clients that are not capable of upgrading regularly to follow EOS dates? Some other clients are not interested in the cloud features highlighted by Cloudera and just want to keep running their “legacy” Hadoop workloads. Hortonworks’ HDP used to be downloadable for free and some companies are still interested in having a Big Data distribution without support for non business critical workloads.

Finally, some are worried about the sensible decrease in open-source contributions since the two companies have merged.

Trunk Data Platform (TDP) was designed with these problematics in mind: