What You Missed in Big Data : Hadoop Startups Make Strides
This past week in Big Data: Rackspace picked up a NoSQL startup, Platfora released its flagship product, and MapR announced two major updates that got the open-source community excited.
On Thursday Rackspace disclosed that it acquired Exceptional Cloud Services, an emerging Redis solutions provider from the Bay Area. Terms of the deal were disclosed but we did learn that the cloud host is absorbing ECS’s entire development and sales teams, as well as its three software products and a customer base of over 50,000 developers.
The other Big Data startup that made headlines this week is Platfora, which announced the general availability of its BI solution for Hadoop. The platform is pegged as a superior alternative to the legacy data warehousing and ETL software that many enterprises opt to use in their analytics environments. Platfora says that its offering is optimized to work with every major Hadoop distribution, including the Apache version and several popular commercial flavors.
MapR, one of the companies whose distribution is supported by Platfora, released the full source-code of its distro together with relevant documentation and binaries. In addition, the firm revealed that it has teamed up with Canonical to develop a special Ubuntu flavor that comes pre-integrated with MapR M3.
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