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What's Hadoop Got to Do with It?
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Hive, Impala or Spark?
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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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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 says it had been waiting for these engines to get fast enough to support its BI platform. And now they are.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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