OpenLogic released its outlook for the open source movement in the enterprise throughout 2012, leveraging eight different metrics to determine where adoption is going to be high or flat, and where will it decline.

According to the company, HBase, Node.js, nginx, Hadoop and Rails were the five fastest growing open-source projects in 2011. OpenLogic expects this to remain pretty much the same through 2012. Node.js and nginx are expected to make gains over the course of the next 12 months in the application/web service category, while JBoss and GlassFish will likely see some declines.

Not one of the open frameworks in the study is expected to see their share decreae significantly, according to OpenLogic. Rails will be leading the charge,  ahead of Spring, Grails and Struts which are expected to remain flat.

In the big data space, HPBase, Hadoop and MongoDB will be the top three names on the list. MySQL will hold on to its position in 2012 along with PostgreSQL, while CouchDB is going to see users migrating to other solutions. Overall, HBase, Node.js, nginx, Hadoop and Rails top OpenLogic’s 2012 list once again.

Big data will continue to be big this year, and OpenLogic providing some early backing for that with the research itself. The CloudSwing operator analyzed data public data obtained mostly via Google, in addition to aggregated data about the activities of the 250 enterprises that makeup the company’s customer base. Specifically, OpenLogic looked into support contract purchases for CloudSwing and the activity of corporate users running OLEX, its open SaaS soultion.

Fusion-io also noted that big data as a key trend in 2012, emphasizing the trend in two different highlights in its forecast for 2012.  One of them is what it referred to in a blog post as “Small Data;” databases under 10 terabytes where there’s a market opportunity for flash.