MongoDB: Now with Hive compatibility
10gen has added some new features to its MongoDB connector for Hadoop, including support for Hive and the ability to backup MongoDB files in HDFS.
How TripAdvisor engineers helped its business people find and analyze its Hadoop data
Data scientists might be capable of getting valuable insights out of Hadoop, but that can’t be said of all salespeople. An engineer at TripAdvisor came up with a way to change that.
Hortonworks takes $50M to arm itself for the Hadoop commercialization wars
Competition is feisty in the land of commercial Hadoop distributions, and a $50 million in venture capital re-up looks like it could come in handy for Hortonworks.
Why Hortonworks is riding a faster Hive to the bitter end
While the rest of the Hadoop world is trying to distance itself from Hive with new interactive engines, Hortonworks is trying to make it faster. It might actually be a sound strategy.
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.
Hadoop startup Qubole raises $7M for Hive as a Service
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.
We don’t need more data scientists — just make big data easier to use
Sure, more data scientists would be great. But Scott Brave, of Baynote, says the better solution is to create analytics products that are so easy to use that you don’t even need a data scientist.
Exclusive: The brains behind Hive launch on-demand Hadoop service
Two key members of the Facebook team that created the Hadoop query language Hive are launching their own big data startup called Qubole on Thursday. Qubole is a managed version of Hive that’s hosted on the Amazon Web Services cloud computing infrastructure.
Kontagent turns data mining into SaaS for mobile apps
Social and mobile analytics startup Kontagent has expanded its business to include a data-mining service powered by Hive, the SQL-like interface for querying data stored within Hadoop. It’s a smart move by the company, and one that other cloud-based analytics providers would be wise to replicate.
Hadoop jumps through hoops, becomes mainstream
Matt Howard of Norwest Venture Partners predicts that 2012 and 2013 will be Hadoop’s breakout years. Howard gives us insight into the five factors that will accelerate Hadoop’s mainstream adoption over the next 18 months.