UPDATED 23:42 EDT / FEBRUARY 06 2012

Quick Post: Vendors Quibble About Forrester’s Hadoop Leader Board

Yesterday I posted about the Forrester Wave reportby James Koblieus that ranked Amazon Web  Services, IBM and EMC as the leaders in the nascent Hadoop market.

Well, it looks like some vendors have a few critiques.

In an Information Week story today, EMC raised some questions about its low software packaging score and Cloudera had this to say:

Kirk Dunn, Cloudera’s Chief Operating Officer, said Forrester’s strategy scoring, which counted for 50% of the vendor rankings, seemed to discount the importance of the vendor’s Cloudera Manager admin and management software, which supports system deployment, ongoing monitoring, job and configuration management, and system optimization.

“Nobody has a product anything like [Cloudera Manager],” Dunn said. “We think that’s highly strategic and one of the most important things that organizations are looking for when they try to make dependable, predictable use of Hadoop.”

Dunn also quibbled with Forrester’s placement of competitor MapR above Cloudera on the vertical “current offering” axis, questioning MapR’s security capabilities and the fit and portability of the vendor’s proprietary components in the “democratic environment” of open source Apache Hadoop.

There were also questions about the absence of Microsoft, Oracle and Teradata.

Hmm – this is a fragmented market, isn’t it? Don’t these kinds of rankings have a way of shifting?

But the results are revealing. I had expected Cloudera to make the top three. Seems like a blow for them not to get a top ranking.


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