Cloudera Releases New Version of Its Apache Hadoop Distribution as Competition Mounts - ReadWriteCloud
The announcement follows recent announcements that DataStax, Hadapt and Mapr are joining the growing number of companies competing with Cloudera.
At the GigaOM Structure Big Data event earlier this month, Datastax announced a new product called Brisk earlier this month. Brisk is a fork of Apache Hadoop that replaces the Hadoop file system and Hbase datastore with Apache Cassandra, another BigTable-inspired database. Datastax is the sponsor company of Cassandra and sells enterprise support and management tools.
At the same event two new Hadoop-focused startups, Hadapt and Mapr, were also announced. Mapr replaces the Apache Hadoop file system with its own proprietary alternative, and Hadapt aims to bring SQL-like functionality to the platform. Appistry also offers an alternative file system for Hadoop.
These companies join IBM in selling Hadoop-related products and services. IBM has its own Hadoop distribution, and sells a Hadoop-powered InfoSphere product geared towards making Hadoop easier to use.