by Merv Adrian | March 9, 2013 | 22 Comments
I don’t often do a pure opinion piece but I feel compelled to weigh in on a queston I’ve been asked several times since EMC released its Pivotal HD recently. The question is whether it is somehow inappropriate, even “evil,” for EMC to enter the market without having “enough” committers to open source Apache projects. [...]
Category: Apache Big Data Cassandra EMC Hadoop Lucene MapR open source Tags: Apache, big data, Cassandra, EMC, Hadoop, MapR, OSS
by Merv Adrian | January 30, 2013 | 8 Comments
2013 promises to be a banner year for Apache Hadoop, platform providers, related technologies – and analysts who try to sort it out. I’ve been wrestling with ways to make sense of it for Gartner clients bewildered by a new set of choices, and for them and myself, I’ve built a stack diagram that describes [...]
Category: Apache Big Data Cloudera data integration Hadoop Hbase HDFS Hortonworks MapReduce open source OSS Sqoop Tags: Apache, Cassandra, Cloudera, Datastax, Flume, Hadapt, Hadoop, Hbase, HDFS, Hive, Hortonworks, Hstreaming, Karmasphere, MapR, MapReduce, Oozie, open source, OSS, Pig, Sqoop, zookeeper
by Merv Adrian | July 19, 2011 | 4 Comments
The big players are moving in for a piece of the Big Data action. IBM, EMC, and NetApp have stepped up their messaging, in part to prevent startup upstarts like Cloudera from cornering the Apache Hadoop distribution market. They are all elbowing one another to get closest to “pure Apache” while still “adding value.” Numerous [...]
Category: Big Data Hadoop IBM MapReduce Microsoft OSS Yahoo! Tags: Apache, BigInsights, Brisk, Cassandra, Cloudera, Datarush, Datastax, Eigenbase, EMC, Facebook, Flume, Hadapt, Hadoop, Hbase, HDFS, Hive, Hortonworks, Hstreaming, IBM, InfoSphere, Isilon, Karmasphere, Linux, MapR, MapReduce, Microsoft, Mondrian, NetApp, NFS, Oozie, open source, Oracle, OSS, Pervasive, Pig, Platform Computing, SQLStream, Sqoop, Watson, Yahoo!, zookeeper
