Cloudera Inc. is a Palo Alto-based American enterprise software company that provides Apache Hadoop-based software, support and services, and training to data-driven enterprises. It is often referred to as the commercial Hadoop company.

Cloudera was founded by three top engineers from Google, Yahoo!, and Facebook—Christophe Bisciglia, Amr Awadallah, and Jeff Hammerbacher.

Cloudera is the market leader in Hadoop and is one of the major code contributors to the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. With the help of Hadoop, Cloudera helps businesses and organizations interact with their large datasets and derive great insights.

They have also built a full-fledged Apache Hadoop distribution called Cloudera's Distribution Including and a proprietary Hadoop cluster manager called Cloudera Manager, which helps users set up large clusters with extreme ease.