Database startup Drawn to Scale is closing down
Database startup Drawn to Scale, creator of the SQL-on-Hadoop technology called Spire, is closing down. The company’s product, Spire, was one of the first SQL-on-Hadoop technologies. Read more »
Why 3 celebrity data scientists are willing to work for free — for you
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Hadoop startup Mortar Data is offering to build recommendation systems for 10 companies, with help from Hilary Mason, Drew Conway and Max Shron. It’s part of a bigger plan to democratize the science behind online recommendations. Read more »
How EMC’s CTO is trying to keep EMC, VMware and Pivotal orbiting the same sun
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EMC CTO John Roese has a tough, but important job trying to keep EMC, VMware and Pivotal all moving in the same direction. While the three are separate companies, their fates are also very much aligned. Read more »
Look, IBM is doing SQL on Hadoop, too
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IBM’s entrant in the SQL-on-Hadoop competition has been flying under the radar, but is available as a technology preview. Called Big SQL, it’s a big deal if IBM wants to be a major player in the Hadoop space. Read more »
MapR releases M7, its commercial HBase distro
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MapR on Wednesday released its commercial version of HBase called M7, the first such product on the market, that the company claims is bigger, faster and better than the open source version. Read more »
Precog launches with a plan to simplify analytics on unstructured data
Analytics startup Precog is on a mission to make analytics on unstructured data as simple as possible with a new line of targeted appliances. Read more »
With Impala now GA, Cloudera’s CEO sizes up the SQL-on-Hadoop market
Cloudera’s Impala engine for interactive SQL queries on Hadoop data is now generally available, and CEO Mike Olson gives his lay of the competitive landscape. Read more »
The growing importance of timing in data centers
Accurate timing has grown more important in distributed systems, not just for mobile networks, but also for tracking data between data centers. Our love of digital junk is pushing storage to the edge. Read more »
How data is changing the car game for Ford
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The advent of big data is affecting Ford Motor Co. in some significant ways, from how it analyzes its supply chain to the features it puts into its cars. Read more »
Hadoop startup Qubole raises $7M for Hive as a Service
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Hadoop experts Qubole have just closed a Series A funding round for their service, which lets users run Hive data warehouse jobs in Amazon’s cloud. Read more »
How HBase converted MySpace’s MySQL champion and is driving Hadoop mainstream
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Gravity CTO Jim Benedetto knows his way around MySQL after managing a 600-instance cluster at MySpace, but he has found HBase religion as his real-time content-recommendation platform grew. And he’s not alone. Read more »
Welcome to Berkeley: Where Hadoop isn’t nearly fast enough
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Hadoop not fast enough for you? Then you might want to get to know AMPLab, a University of California, Berkeley team developing faster versions of many core Hadoop components. Read more »
How to hire data scientists and get hired as one
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Data scientist might be the sexiest job of the 21st century, but it’s hardly an easy gig to land. Here is some advice from practitioners at Netflix, Orbitz and Hortonworks on how get hired and even do the hiring. Read more »
Teradata to connect Hadoop and data warehouses, roll out new appliance
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Teradata introduces a new high-speed data-warehouse appliance and announces the ability to use insights from Hadoop as part of analysis in a data-warehouse appliance. Read more »
Qubit revamps analytics platform for ecommerce sites
The new version aims to provide a simpler interface for wrangling hundreds of data points per site visit. Qubit has also released research about browser user value, with IE users coming out on top. Read more »
Can big tech overcome its love-hate relationship and destroy patent trolls once and for all?
Almost every tech company claims to hate patent trolls, but they certainly don’t always back up their words with actions. Recent patent activity around the Hadoop big data platform might show how companies can effectively battle trolls — if they really want to. Read more »
IBM releases Hadoop box and database technology for quicker data insights
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IBM announced a new PureData appliance for Hadoop and technology for speeding up analytic databases. The announcements come at a good time, with data sets growing and enterprises hankering for easy and fast analysis capability. Read more »
Big, open data: MapR on Github and Yelp’s dataset challenge
MapR is releasing open source code and partnering with Canonical on Ubuntu, while Netflix is releasing some data for for developers to play with. Sounds like a good day for openness. Read more »
Google donates patents to protect cloud software from lawsuits
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Google announced a “patent pledge” in which it will donate 10 patents related to MapReduce to protect the emerging cloud and big data industry from lawsuits. Read more »
Why Apple, eBay, and Walmart have some of the biggest data warehouses you’ve ever seen
Teradata has been around forever, and its customer base full of huge companies suggests it will probably for a while to come. Here’s how some of its customers use the company’s analytics software. Read more »
White-hot BI-on-Hadoop startup Platfora now GA
Platfora, the San Mateo, Calif.-based startup that helped spur a general rethinking of business intelligence for a big data world, is finally exiting its beta period and is generally available. It’s no wonder the company has garnered so much attention given its stated mission to make […] Read more »
Hadoop applications abound, but Hadoop still needs improvement
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Entrepreneurs who build applications on top of Hadoop see lots of use cases, but the ecosystem needs to evolve further in order to support wider and more cost-effective implementations. Read more »
Getting beyond the cult of big data
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Asking how something is better than Hadoop is not the right question. For strategic thinking around big data companies need to figure out what they want to achieve, not what tool to use. Read more »
Cloudera scores analytics-as-a-service deal with Germany’s T-Systems
The strategic partnership will see Cloudera’s enterprise Hadoop distribution, along with its Impala real-time query engine, running on top of T-Systems’ extensive cloud infrastructure in Europe and beyond. Read more »
Concurrent gets $4M for higher-level Hadoop
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Cascading proprietor Concurrent has secured $4 million in venture capital in order to advance its efforts toward easing the development of big data applications. Read more »
Drawn to Scale wants to make MongoDB scale like Hadoop
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Database startup Drawn to Scale has extended its Spire distributed data platform from SQL to MongoDB. That means users can get high performance from the latter even across hundreds of terabytes. Read more »
In battle for Hadoop, MapR raises $30M
Hadoop vendor is racking up customers and on Monday it announced a $30 million venture-capital investment that brings its total funding to $59 million since launching in 2011. Read more »
Hadoop’s past, present, and future: A GigaOM special report
Check out our special retrospective on the history of Hadoop, one of the most powerful open-source data tools ever developed, in this post. Read more »
Hadoop through the years: A GigaOM retrospective
We were there very early on for the birth of Hadoop and its maturation into a vital data analysis tool. Here’s a look back at some of our best stories. Read more »
5 reasons why the future of Hadoop is real-time (relatively speaking)
In Part III of our look at all things Hadoop, we examine the trends driving Hadoop’s future. At the end of the day, everything is pushing Hadoop toward being just generally faster and easier to consume. Read more »
The Hadoop ecosystem: the (welcome) elephant in the room (infographic)
How big an impact has Hadoop had on the technology world? Check out our infographic on the reach of the most important big data tool of our time. Read more »
The history of Hadoop: From 4 nodes to the future of data
In the first of our four-part multi-media series on Hadoop, the people who helped build Hadoop talk about its birth, its promise and the challenges in moving it from webscale to just large-scale. Read more »
How and why LinkedIn is becoming an engineering powerhouse
Five years ago, LinkedIn was a shell of the technology company it is today. Here’s an inside look at where it came from, what it’s become and where it’s going. Read more »
Big data can improve websites, cut energy bills, save lives
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Use cases at the Strata conference show that information gleaned from Hadoop and other big data technologies can bring companies new revenue streams and cut expenditures. Read more »
This week’s 10 best data stories (so far)
There has been a lot of data news already this week — some big, some interesting, and some both. Here’s a collection of the stuff you shouldn’t, or don’t want to, miss. Read more »
Cloudera who? Intel announces its own Hadoop distribution
Intel’s getting into the open source software business with it’s own version of Hadoop. It joins a host of startups as well as EMC Greenplum in building a distribution for big data. Read more »
DataDirect Networks brings out Hadoop appliance for enterprises
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Known for its supercomputing storage capabilities, DataDirect Networks is introducing a box for running Hadoop jobs, and a company executive sees the Hadoop hardware trend continuing. Read more »
EMC to Hadoop competition: “See ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya.”
EMC Greenplum rolled out a new Hadoop distribution that fuses the popular big data platform with its flagship MPP database technology. Co-founder Scott Yara thinks the company’s huge investment puts it in the catbird seat among Hadoop vendors. Read more »
Hortonworks and Microsoft bring open-source Hadoop to Windows
Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows, now in beta, brings Hadoop to Excel and SQL Server (and vice versa.) Read more »
SQL is what’s next for Hadoop: Here’s who’s doing it
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More and more companies and open source projects are trying to let users run SQL queries from inside Hadoop itself. Here’s a list of what’s available and, on a high level, how they work. Read more »
