Cloudera and Hortonworks merge
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Cloudera and Hortonworks merge
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Re: Cloudera and Hortonworks merge
#2Good move! Would help consolidate Hadoop ecosystem. MapR would find it hard to compete now.
Both these companies are being challenged with a new crop of Databricks and the confluents of the world.
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#3Yikes!
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#4That's interesting. Been at their Hungarian office for a job interview (Hortonworks, a year or so ago), it was weird though. Haven't tried Cloudera, but they too have an office at Budapest, I wonder how it will effect their workforce in the region.
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#5This is not to eliminate threats from new comers but to find an identity in the new era of cloud.
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#6Hadoop very "fancy" 5-6 years ago, what's the trend now? I guess with managed services from AWS / Google it makes Hadoop less useful?
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#7Interestingly, none of them mention Hadoop. It makes sense to merge from a business point of view, and on a technical level it could finally mean more work on polishing the gazillion tools they include, which is badly needed.
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#8Good move for both companies. The surplus of 'enterprise hadoop' companies was created by a mixture of hype and a peak in VC investment in open source.
The fact that Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR were all founded and raised $100m+ around the same time was a bit superfluous for the whole market.
Hard to say where this leaves MapR now. They seem to be the odd man out in terms of growth and adoption.
Re: Cloudera and Hortonworks merge
#9Good move for both companies. The surplus of 'enterprise hadoop' companies was created by a mixture of hype and a peak in VC investment in open source. The fact that Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR were all founded and raised $100m+ around the same time was a bit superfluous for the whole market. Hard to say where this leaves MapR now. They seem to be the odd man out in terms of growth and adoption.
We have a startup, Logical Clocks (www.logicalclocks.com), that just raised money to sell our data-science next-generation Hadoop stack. It has a new verison of HDFS called HopsFS (Nvme storage, distributed metadata) and support for GPUs in YARN. And distributed tensorflow, Spark, Airflow, Flink.
So, what does that mean for us? I am shellshocked. I expect prices to increase (good for us). What else should we expect?
Re: Cloudera and Hortonworks merge
#10Good move for both companies. The surplus of 'enterprise hadoop' companies was created by a mixture of hype and a peak in VC investment in open source. The fact that Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR were all founded and raised $100m+ around the same time was a bit superfluous for the whole market. Hard to say where this leaves MapR now. They seem to be the odd man out in terms of growth and adoption.
We have a startup, Logical Clocks (www.logicalclocks.com), that just raised money to sell our data-science next-generation Hadoop stack. It has a new verison of HDFS called HopsFS (Nvme storage, distributed metadata) and support for GPUs in YARN. And distributed tensorflow, Spark, Airflow, Flink. So, what does that mean for us? I am shellshocked. I expect prices to increase (good for us). What else should we expect?
Both Horton and Cloudera require a huge number of partner resellers and consultants. What horton and cloudera have isn't just software, but brand, an install base, and the ability to back it up.
They merged partially because they were both being cannibalized by services revenue they couldn't get rid of. Now they are struggling to move to the cloud (see Atlas now)
I'm not sure yet another hadoop distro with a bunch of 1 off tooling that is supposedly faster is the answer. Why is all that stuff even needed?