ZoomData has raised another $17 million for its visualization technology that was built with stream processing and iPads in mind, but has since made the leap to historical data and desktops,… Read more »
Alteryx has raised $60 million to help expand its fast-growing business, which straddles the middle ground between Excel and SPSS by trying to turn data blending and predictive modeling into self-service experiences. Read more »
Cloudera has acquired a data-visualization startup called DataPad, the founding team of which specializes in data analysis using the Python programming language. As Hadoop competition heats up, Cloudera might be ramping… Read more »
Hadoop, the open source big-data framework, has gradually evolved from being a shiny object in the laboratory to an increasingly serious tool finding its place in the Enterprise. At Gigaom, we’ve covered… Read more »
MapR has integrated the Apache Drill SQL-on-Hadoop engine into its big data platform. MapR led the development of Drill, which is part of a larger movement within the company toward building… Read more »
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 »
New features included in Hadoop’s latest releases go some way towards freeing an increasingly capable data platform from the constraints of its early dependence on one specific technical approach: MapReduce. Read more »