Hortonworks is working on a new initiative called Stinger.next, which it hopes will remake Apache Hive into a much more-capable SQL engine within the next year and a half. A greatly… Read more »
There was a lot of news about Spark’s ascension in the big data ranks this week, as well as some speculation. According to Cloudera’s Mike Olson, his company is widely embracing… Read more »
MapR has raised $110 million, $80 million of which is equity financing, in order to fuel its growing Hadoop business in the face of better-known rivals Cloudera and Hortonworks. Like those… Read more »
Dell, Cloudera and Intel are working together on an appliance designed to speed the performance of Hadoop environments by moving a lot more data into a shared memory space. Key to… Read more »
Hadoop is a complex technology, so it helps to have friends in high places when you’re trying to develop it and integrate webscale tooling into enterprise environments. For Hortonworks, that friend… Read more »
Hadoop vendor Cloudera has acquired Gazzang, a startup specializing in encryption for Hadoop environments, as well as others next-generation data stores such as Cassandra and MongoDB. Read more »
Big data vendor Cloudera is no Google when it comes to data center footprint, but the cost and complexity of its infrastructure are growing with each passing year. Cloudera VP of… Read more »
Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly came on the Structure Show this week to talk about why the company entered into a deep partnership with Intel, just how much cash it raised and… Read more »
Hadoop pioneer Cloudera has said it closed on a $900 million round of financing that gives Intel an 18 percent stake in the company. Rumors had Intel’s investment at around $100… Read more »
Cloudera and Intel have entered into an agreement that makes Intel Cloudera’s largest strategic investor and makes Cloudera Intel’s preferred partner for Hadoop distributions. It will forego its own distribution and… Read more »