question what are the differences between coudera CDP to CDH in Support Questions

what are the differences between coudera CDP to CDH

mike_bronson7 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:27:47 GMT

hi all

we are examining the option to installed new Hadoop cluster based on CDH cloudera packages

I will appreciate to get feedback's / notes / remarks / else , from someone that have the experienced of installing the CDH packages , and how this Hadoop looks after installing the Cloudera open source ( CDH )

Re: what are the differences between coudera CDP to CDH

GangWar — Fri, 17 Jul 2020 11:03:28 GMT

@mike_bronson7 For the installation purpose we have a very nice community article which you can follow where you will get all types of installation method with videos[1].

The package installation is almost deprecated since it's hard to manage a cluster in RPM. Though you can try for personal purposes, here is the doc.

https://docs.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/6/6.3/topics/cm_ig_custom_installation.html#cmig_topic_21_2

Regarding some other some other knowledge and videos you can follow Cloudera Youtube[2] channel as well as Blog[3].

Re: what are the differences between coudera CDP to CDH

mike_bronson7 — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 21:16:38 GMT

what you mean about "The package installation is almost deprecated"

is the latest version will be end of life sometime?

Re: what are the differences between coudera CDP to CDH

GangWar — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 08:41:03 GMT

@mike_bronson7 I meant to say there is not a bunch of people using package install because of following reason[1]:

Cloudera does not support clusters that are not deployed and managed by Cloudera Manager.
If you choose to install CDH manually using these instructions, you cannot use Cloudera Manager to install additional parcels. This can prevent you from using services that are only available via parcel.

For testing purpose you are free to choose any method but it depends what you are looking i.e easy managing of cluster using CM web UI or just want to play with a demo installation. Regarding the end of life question, Yes that's the nature of software support that end of the day it will be end of life after some years. For Cloudera software support cycle you can here is a glance: https://www.cloudera.com/legal/policies/support-lifecycle-policy.html

Cheers!

[1] https://docs.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/5-16-x/topics/install_cloudera_packages.html