
Open – For Business – At the ASF
by Merv Adrian | March 27, 2018
The Apache Software Foundation is about to celebrate an anniversary, and its extraordinary contribution to the economic refactoring of software stacks seems to be gaining more momentum with every passing...

Hadoop FAQs - April Webinar Q&A
by Merv Adrian | April 16, 2017
Nick Heudecker and I received numerous questions during our April Hadoop webinar with several hundred attendees, and we have summarized and answered them below.
How can Hadoop-Spark interface with conventional RDBMS such as Oracle/UDB/Teradata...

Symposium Notes - Day Three Features Data Assembly
by Merv Adrian | October 24, 2016
With 24 meetings under my belt from the first two days at Orlando Symposium, Wednesday’s 13 (and a presentation) didn’t look quite as daunting. It began well, with enough time...

Hadoop Apache Project Commercial Support Tracker April 2016
by Merv Adrian | April 27, 2016
There are now 20 commonly supported projects: Avro, Flume and Solr join the group supported by all 5 distributors and other changes appear as well.
For this version of the...

DBMS 2015 Numbers Paint a Picture of Slow but Steady Change
by Merv Adrian | April 12, 2016
Gartner recently published “Market Share: All Software Markets, Worldwide, 2015” (for clients) and the story the DBMS data tells continues themes we have been observing for some time in the...

Hadoop Projects Supported By Only One Distribution
by Merv Adrian | August 9, 2015
The Apache Software Foundation has succeeded admirably in becoming a place where new software ideas are developed: today there are over 350 projects underway. The challenges for the Hadoop user are twofold: trying to...

Now, What Is Hadoop? And What's Supported?
by Merv Adrian | July 2, 2015
Updated August 11, 2015
This perennial question resurfaced recently in a thoughtful blog post by Andreas Neumann, Chief Architect of Cask, called What is Hadoop, anyway?. Ultimately, after a careful deconstruction of...

Perspectives on Hadoop Part Two: Pausing Plans
by Merv Adrian | June 4, 2015
By Merv Adrian and Nick Heudecker
In the first post in this series , I looked at the size of revenue streams for RDBMS software and maintenance/support and noted that they...

Perspectives on Hadoop: Procurement, Plans, and Positioning
by Merv Adrian | June 1, 2015
I have the privilege of working for the world's leading information technology research and advisory company, covering information management with a strong focus for the past few years on an emerging...
