Business intelligence software firm Jaspersoft operates JasperForge.org, a community site that, among other things, allows developers to download open-source big data technology. That covers pretty much all of the Apache projects associated with Hadoop, as well as many others, and Jaspersoft is making the most of it.

The company tracks monthly connector downloads and provides a few metrics that shed some new light on the big data trend today. The latest report that went out this week cites a few interesting figures: over 10,000 connectors downloaded this year, an increase that could add up to as much as 92 percent YoY growth by the end of 2012. Documents account for 58 percent of these downloads, and demand has increased by 70 percent, while key-value stores and Big Table clones take up another 39 percent.

The study also contains a few somewhat more specific details: DataStax’s Cassandra file system has doubled in popularity, and Hadoop Hive “shows constant, steady demand from 2011 to 2012.”

“Several NoSQL environments have become exceptionally popular for reporting and analyzing Big Data,” said Brian Gentile, CEO at Jaspersoft. “Companies now have the opportunity to learn more about their operations and performance by analyzing data streams that were too big or too complex to process even a couple years ago. The momentum of Big Data downloads tells us more companies are recognizing this opportunity and taking advantage of it.”

The software vendor is giving back to the community, but it has also been very focused on expansion in recent months. A few weeks ago Jaspersoft announced a big move to support Cloud Foundry, developing a new version of its flagship solution that’s specifically optimized for VMware’s open cloud platform. The main addition is that it can support different types of databases – both relational and NoSQL DBs.