DataTorrent, a startup building a stream-processing engine for Hadoop that it claims can analyze more than 1 billion data events per second, announced on Tuesday that its flagship product generally available. Stream processing… Read more »
Eric Baldeschwieler, the founding CEO of Hortonworks and former Yahoo VP who led the company’s Hadoop development efforts, is now a strategic adviser to Hadoop startup DataTorrent. The company, which won the Structure… Read more »
The service, announced in November as a tool for customers who want to process data in a timely fashion, gives Amazon a rival to Apache Storm. Read more »
Netflix has open sourced a tool called Suro that collects event data from disparate application servers before sending them to other data platforms such as Hadoop and Elasticsearch. It’s more big… Read more »
This post from the New York Times’ Open blog talks about the architecture and algorithms underpinning its content-personalization engine. Its experience speaks to some larger trends around companies moving from batch… Read more »
Dataminr, a startup dedicated to analyzing the Twitter firehose of real-time tweets, is using today’s BlackBerry news as proof of its value. The company claims it gave users a 3-minute advantage… Read more »
Hortonworks is working to integrate the Storm stream-processing engine with its Hadoop distro, and hopes to have it ready for enterprise apps within a year’s time. It’s the latest non-batch functionality… Read more »
Samza is LinkedIn’s take on Twitter’s Storm engine for stream processing, only built on top of LinkedIn’s own Kafka messaging system. It’s the latest in a growing line of open source… Read more »
Big data startup HStreaming is now part of Swiss advertising firm Adello Group. HStreaming had standout technology by all accounts, but the business never scaled enough to survive in a tough… Read more »