Hadoop-based data management software and services provider Cloudera has announced today its conclusive major update to CDH3, AKA Cloudera’s Distribution for  Hadoop. The wide-ranging, Apache licensed platform that enables customers to gain profit from their data has gotten several notably significant features, meaning a lot of added publicity along with its hot-out-the-oven update.

“The focus of this update to CDH3 includes multiple enhancements which strengthen it as a platform for ISVs and for the enterprise. By making it more secure, easier to integrate with and easier to deploy, organizations have even more reasons to choose CDH3 for their Hadoop deployments. Enhancements to CDH3 include:

• Integration — this latest update to CDH3 makes it easier for complimentary enterprise technologies to run on or work with CDH. Enhancements include ODBC drivers that enable the integration of leading business intelligence products and an improved database integration framework that supports adapters and continuous updating of data to and from the Hadoop platform.
• Security — building on the initial work done by Yahoo! on authentication, this update to CDH incorporates authentication not just for MapReduce and HDFS but across the entire Hadoop-based platform.
• Public cloud deployment — CDH3 now includes Whirr, an open source framework to accelerate the provisioning and deployment of Hadoop to public clouds in a vendor-neutral fashion.
• Automation — support for automated date and event based scheduling of jobs, activities and workflows.”

Listing no less that eleven Hadoop-based tools, CDH is the ever-expanding, inclusive platform of its kind that guarantees to bring along with it even more welcome additions in the future. Its efficiency and simplicity are the rock-solid basis of its success, and the above attitude is what gets everyone waiting for more.