Last week, I wrote briefly about Apache HBase pushing out its 1.0 release. Subsequently, news of several more new releases of Big Data-related projects rolled out of the Apache Software Foundation. I… Read more »
Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly doesn’t often mince words when it comes to describing his competition in the Hadoop space, or Cloudera’s position among those other companies. In October 2013, Reilly told me… Read more »
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks announced its first quarterly earnings as a publicly held company Tuesday, claiming $12.7 million in fourth-quarter revenue and $46 million in revenue during fiscal year 2014. The numbers… Read more »
Titles can be misleading. For example, the O’Reilly Strata + Hadoop World conference took place in San Jose, California, this week but Hadoop wasn’t the star of the show. Based on… Read more »
Early adopters of the data lake are integrating Hadoop into current workflows and addressing challenges around the cleanliness, validity, and protection of their data. Read more »
The Strata + Hadoop World Big Data confab starts up in San Jose, CA this morning, and a bunch of vendor announcements are coming along for the ride. Some of the news broke just… Read more »
Hadoop vendor Cloudera announced on Tuesday that the company’s “reliminary unaudited total revenue surpassed $100 million” in 2014. That the company, which is still privately held, would choose to disclose even… Read more »
Hadoop vendor MapR and data center automation startup Mesosphere have created an open source technology called Myriad, which is supposed to make it easier to run Hadoop workloads on top of the… Read more »
With virtually every Hadoop distribution vendor offering SQL-on-Hadoop solutions, the key factor in the market is now the integration between Hadoop and data warehouse technology. Read more »
Gigaom’s Structure Data conference is just three months away — March 18 and 19 in New York — and it’s looking like our fifth one will be the best one yet. The… Read more »