UPDATED 14:19 EDT / OCTOBER 25 2012

Hadapt in Key Position for Data Imaging, New Forms of Communication

Hadapt was the lucky company that snagged the Audience Choice award at the gathering for its use of SQL and Hadoop to offer a single, unified system for data analytics. Dr. Daniel Abadi, the chief scientist and co-founder of Hadapt, was more than happy to elaborate, stopping by theCube with SiliconAngle founder John Furrier and Wikibon co-founder Dave Vellante at Strata + Hadoop World this week.

The data scientist says that Hadapt is leveraging the best of two worlds: the three decades worth of know-how that accumulated behind SQL, and the fresher approach of the still maturing Hadoop community. The end result is a platform that can crunch both structured and unstructured data while eliminating the need for connectors.

After providing a bit of background about his tenure at Yale and his work around row stores (which eventually led to the creation of Vertica), Dr. Abadi draws a timeline of analytical technology.

The relational databases that were implemented in the 70s and 80s as plain transactional systems took on a more knowledge-driven role in the 90s, and eventually we got to where we are today.  Dr. Abadi, however, is more interested in the future: the Doctor says that the industry is opening up to new types of data – scientific information, images and new types of text communications – and Hadapt plans on playing a key role in realizing this trend. Cloudera is following suite with Impala.

Dr. Abadi regards the recently announced real-time processing engine as a step in the right direction for Mike Olson’s company, and the segment as a whole. Up until now Cloudera focused on integrating its Hadoop distro with other vendors’ databases, but Impala disrupts that all that; functionality that previously required two clusters can now run on only one, without having to be hindered by connectors.  Abadi makes one thing very clear though: Hadapt has got the head start, and the firm has every intention of maintaining its current momentum.

See Dr. Abadi’s full interview below.


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