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Why Does Apache Spark Matter?
Apache Spark is arguably the hottest big data technology of the year — or maybe ever. More than 1000 enthusiasts have committed code to the open source project and almost every big data provider has embraced it, and it’s just 20 months old.
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Back to Work Hadoopers, Hortonworks Is Fine
When Hadoop purveyor Hortonworks (HDP) filed a registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a $100 million secondary stock offering last month, jaws dropped. Though the move wasn’t altogether unexpected, the timing and the urgency surrounding it seemed suspicious. It spooked Wall Street and prompted a sell-off
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Looker's New Layer Supports All Hadoop SQL Dialects
Last May, Apache Hive 1.2 was released. It included support for SQL Union (Union Distinct), functionality important for querying. In June, Spark released a new version that included Spark MLlib, a machine learning pipeline for prepping and transforming data. Then in November, Alan Choi, a software engineer at
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MapR Patents Its Big Data Cruncher
Talk to MapR CMO Jack Norris and he’ll make no apologies for the fact that his company’s big data crunching technology is not 100 percent open source.
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Hortonworks Wants Another $100M - and Investors Aren't Happy
When startups win a round of funding, they typically win applause. But when a 4.5-year-old publicly traded company — even one that completed its initial public offering (IPO) in arguably record time — it can look like the beginning of the end.
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How Should Hadoop Users Think About Spark?
There’s been a lot of rhetoric around Apache Spark over the last few years. Back in the fall of 2014, some even suggested — only partly in jest — that the Hadoop World conference change its name to Spark World.
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Will MapR Streams Help it Leapfrog the Competition?
Yesterday was a big day at MapR’s San Jose, Calif. headquarters as it unveiled what is supposed to be a ground-breaking new product, MapR Streams. Streams is an event-streaming architecture for gathering and analyzing data in real-time.
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Cloudera: More Hub Than Hadoop?
Hadoop watchers, take a step back in time to October 2013. The place is the Grand Ball Room of the New York Hilton, the event is Hadoop World. Cloudera co-founder Mike Olson stands at the front of the stage. He is about to say something remarkable, even game-changing ...
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Hortonworks Sets a Record
We measure software companies by all sorts of metrics — product downloads, customer acquisitions, revenue growth. But for startups there’s an especially important one: How long it takes to reach $100 million in annual revenue. Last August we shared Barclays prediction that Hadoop distro provider Hortonworks was expected to hit
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Hadoop’s Here to Stay + Other Insight from #StrataHadoop
Last year at the Strata + Hadoop World in New York City Cloudera co-founder and CTO Mike Olson predicted that Hadoop would disappear and that only one lonely worker in the data center world even know it was there.
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So an Elephant and a Kudu Walk Into #StrataHadoop
It’s probably coincidence that Hadoop pioneer Cloudera and the Linux Foundation each announced Hadoop-related news that isn’t necessarily complementary, on the same day. But then again, the Strata + Hadoop World is taking over much of the Javits Center in New York City today through Thursday, so if you’ve got
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Hortonworks Buys an Internet of Anything Play
Hadoop distro providers like Cloudera and MapR don’t have to worry about going toe-to-toe with Hortonworks anymore. That's because Hortonworks is no longer a one trick pony. (Ok, maybe we should have said one trick elephant.
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The Fastest Growing Software Company Ever?
When Hortonworks went public late last year, the open enterprise Hadoop provider did it for two specific reasons.
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Cloudera Lands on Teradata’s Hadoop Appliance
It’s smarter to partner with an industry leader than to try to displace it.
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