This week’s Big Data roundup features acquisitions by Twitter and WANdisco, plus Databricks’ announcement of a new platform, funding and SAP partnership.

Twitter acquires TapCommerce

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Twitter on Monday announced it will acquire TapCommerce, a mobile retargeting and re-engagement advertising provider. TapCommerce enables real-time, programmatic mobile ad buying across multiple exchanges that TapCommerce claims reach over 50,000 applications. TapCommerce investors include Bain Capital Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Metamorphic Ventures, Nextview Ventures and RRE Ventures.

Twitter’s acquisition of TapCommerce extends Twitter’s vision for “how advertising across the mobile ecosystem can work better for marketers, app developers, and…users,” according to a blog post by Richard Alfonsi, Vice President of Global Online Sales at Twitter. Alfonsi wrote how the acquisition will help Twitter to be able to offer mobile app marketers “more robust capabilities” for app re-engagement…plus “managed service solutions for real-time programmatic buying, and better measurement capabilities.”

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WANdisco acquires OhmData

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Also on Monday, enterprise software solution provider WANdisco announced the acquisition of OhmData which develops Apache HBase database solutions. HBase is a core component of the Hadoop stack, designed for real-time read/write processing of large-scale data sets. WANdisco said it recently applied its continuous availability technology to HBase. As part of the acquisition, OhmData will continue this work to enhance WANdisco’s Big Data product portfolio, according to a prepared statement.

OhmData co-founders Alex Newman and Ryan Rawson will join WANdisco as part of the acquisition. Newman and Rawson are senior open source committers who contribute to Hadoop’s code base; they will further improve integration between WANdisco’s products and the Hadoop platform, WANdisco said.

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Databricks announces platform, funding

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At the second annual Spark Summit in San Francisco, Databricks on Monday announced the launch of a new Apache Spark-based, hosted cloud platform called Databricks Cloud, as well as announced the close of $33 million in Series B funding led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) with follow-on investment from Andreessen Horowitz.

Databricks Cloud helps to simplify the provisioning of a Spark cluster. Users can specify the desired capacity of a new cluster and Databricks Cloud provisions the servers, streamlines the import and caching of data, handles security, and continually patches and updates Spark. Databricks Cloud is currently in limited availability on Amazon Web Services, with several beta users, though expanding to additional cloud providers is planned, according to a prepared statement.

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Databricks announces SAP partnership

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At the summit on Tuesday, Databricks announced a new partnership with SAP which will deliver a Databricks-certified Apache Spark distribution offering for the SAP HANA platform. The offering contains the Spark processing engine that works with any Hadoop distribution, providing a data store and processing layer for Hadoop. “This integration will help enable….Hadoop and Spark developers and applications to harness these capabilities immediately via Spark as well as extend the reach of SAP HANA,” said Ion Stoica, CEO of Databricks, in a prepared statement.

The full production-ready distribution offering, based on Apache Spark 1.0, is deployable in the cloud or on-premise. It is available for immediate download from SAP for free on their website.

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