UPDATED 17:50 EDT / JULY 15 2013

Cloudera’s Drew O’Brien Says Hadoop is Set to Become the Facebook of Big Data

SiliconAngle Studio B host Winston Edmonton stopped by the Cloudera booth at Hadoop Summit 2013 to discuss Big Data and search with Drew O’Brien, the company’s senior manager of product marketing.

O’Brien boasts that Cloudera introduced two new products this year: Impala, its real-time SQL query engine for Hadoop, and Cloudera Search. As the name suggests, the latter is essentially a search bar.

“If you can use Google you can use Cloudera Search. It opens up Hadoop to folks like lawyers and doctors who may not know SQL, may not how to code Pig or Hive, but do know how to do a search. You can find data very easily in large Hadoop clusters and then do with it what you will.” O’Brien explains. ” It also [offers] great benefits for more technical folks like data scientists, who can use it to identify data sets they want to work with more granularity.”

O’Brien tells Winston that Cloudera sets itself apart by offering vanilla Hadoop – HDFS, MapReduce and a handful of libraries – with complimentary open-source software and a homegrown management layer. These different components constitute Cloudera’s flagship offering, a solution which he describes as an integrated analytics platform that lets users store, process and integrate data from a single pane of glass.

The executive says that his company envisions Hadoop as the central data store for the enterprise. Cloudera’s approach to monetizing the framework involves augmenting it with a wide range of capabilities, including search and statistical analysis. O’Brien highlights that healthcare, retail, and e-commerce are are among the sectors that can benefit from this functionality.

Check out the video below for the full interview.


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