Cloudera, Inc. was formed on June 27, 2008 in Burlingame, California by Christophe Bisciglia, Amr Awadallah, Jeff Hammerbacher, and chief executive Mike Olson.

[5] Cloudera originally offered a free product based on Hadoop, earning revenue by selling support and consulting services around it.

[22] In October 2021, the company went private after an acquisition by KKR and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in an all cash transaction valued at approximately $5.3 billion.

[23] That same month, StreamScale won a $240 million jury verdict against Cloudera for patent infringement.

Cloudera markets these products for purposes related to machine learning and data analysis.

"[citation needed] Cloudera has formed partnerships with companies such as Dell,[27] IBM,[28][29] and Oracle.