
January 2018 Hadoop Tracker
by Merv Adrian | January 3, 2018
Last month's update was obsolete before it published. This often happens because of multiple moving parts and my extended gestation period. I needed to correct entries for both AWS and Hortonworks....

December 2017 Tracker - Where's Hadoop?
by Merv Adrian | December 29, 2017
The leading 2017 story of Hadoop distributions is that nobody seems to want to be accused of being in the business of providing them. Some former champions are expanding their shiny new positioning: Cloudera...

2017 Research Retrospective
by Nick Heudecker | December 15, 2017
Here's a recap of my published research in 2017. I've been fortunate to cover a diverse range of topics, including blockchain, cognitive enhancement drugs, streaming and DBMS.
Market Guide for...

IBM Ends Hadoop Distribution, Hortonworks Expands Hybrid Open Source
by Merv Adrian | June 21, 2017
IBM has followed Intel and EMC/Pivotal in abandoning efforts to make a business of Hadoop distributions, and followed Microsoft in making Hortonworks its supplying partner. At the former Hadoop Summit,...

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...

Hadoop Tracker - March 2017
by Merv Adrian | March 16, 2017
Stack expansion has ground to a halt. The last time an Apache project was added to the list of those most supported by leading Hadoop distribution vendors was July 2016, when...


Symposium Notes – Day Four Returns to Data Security, and to Hadoop
by Merv Adrian | October 26, 2016
Thursday, the final day, reinforced a theme for the week: data security is heating up, and organizations are not ready. It came up in half of today’s final 10 meetings....

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...

Symposium Notes - Day Two Jumps in the (Data) Lake
by Merv Adrian | October 19, 2016
My second day of Symposium 1:1 meetings continued the "security of big data" theme (4 of the day's 15 conversations - usually, but not always, about HDFS-based data), with a...