Teradata has swooped to make a double acquisition in yet another sign of impending consolidation in the Big Data market.

The company has snapped up the assets of two firms – Hadapt and Revelytix – according to an announcement today. Hadapt is a four-year-old startup that offers an “all-in-one” analytics environment capable of handling analysis across Hadoop data and conventional structured SQL data. Nine-year old Revelytix meanwhile, is best known for its data-management software Loom that helps users to manage data complexity in Hadoop by discovering data, tracking data lineage and generating metadata. Loom is compatible with a bevy of Hadoop distros such as Cloudera, MapR, Hortonworks and Pivotal. Teradata said both acquisitions were finalized last week, but didn’t disclose the terms.

Teradata said it’ll benefit from Hadapt’s expertise with query execution across Hadoop and relational databases, while Revelytix will add crucial data-management and preparation tools its own products have lacked. In addition, Revelytix’s expertise in deep metadata-management should be another key benefit.

“The addition of the key assets of these companies underscores Teradata’s commitment to continued innovation and customer value, extends our big data portfolio, and enhances the Teradata Unified Data Architecture,” enthused Scott Gnau, president of Teradata Labs, in a prepared statement.

The employees and intellectual property of both companies will be absorbed into Teradata Lab’s greater empire. What isn’t clear is whether or not Hadapt and Revelytix’s products will live on, or be discontinued with only their key technologies surviving in a revamped Teradata product. So far both companies’ websites remain up and running, and neither has announced a change of ownership.

By purchasing the two big data companies, it appears Teradata is staying the course on its mission to embrace Hadoop and other big data technologies in order to provide a bridge to its data warehouse systems.

When excitement around Big Data first began to take hold of the enterprise, many predicted that the market would be cornered by a new wave of vendor startups. But while there are still plenty of startups stirring things up in the Big Data scene, it could be that consolidation is just around the corner.

IBM, the leading Big Data vendor by revenue according to Wikibon, made one of the first moves when it acquired Vivisimo in 2012. This was followed just weeks later by VMware’s acquisition of Cetas Software, while Teradata itself became a key player as early as 2011 with its $263 million acquisition of Aster Data.

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