IBM is extending the value of Big SQL with Big SQL 3 – coming soon in the next release of Big Insights – as discussed this week at the IBM Impact conference in Las Vegas. I had previously mentioned work being done on Big SQL, in the context of Cloudera Impala. By extending the value,…
Lots of bandwagon jumping onto the “Data Lake”. Which leads to the jokes about how to avoid the Data Swamp, or Data Cesspool. I’ve never quite understood why anyone would call it a Data Lake. Nobody knows what’s in a lake, you have to go fishing. Lakes get polluted. They freeze over and cause ice…
This past Friday, March 28, IBM released BigInsights 2.1.2, the latest version of IBM’s Hadoop offering. This release bumps up the level of the Apache Hadoop open source components, and adds a few other goodies. Key enhancements include: BigR – end to end integration of R into BigInsights. It enables the use of R as…
Big Money for Cloudera and Hortonworks – What Does it Mean? Holy cow, there sure seems to be a lot of venture capital money being thrown at what are today – unprofitable – Hadoop distribution companies. In case you missed it, Cloudera recently announced $160m in new funding, and Hortonworks announced $100m in new funding.…
Forrester recently published the “The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Hadoop Solutions, Q1 2014”, which evaluates solutions from a number of vendors including IBM. Free download of the report is available here It’s nice to see that IBM is recognized as the leader in strategy. The rankings of current offering however require a closer look. At…
Trash Talks? Cloudera? Well, in case you missed it, that’s what was reported in Information Week yesterday. Certainly Hortonworks and MapR had some issues with what Cloudera said, and added their comments to the online article. From my perspective, well, first of all – Kudos to Cloudera for simplifying their packaging – no longer do…
Teradata is legend when it comes to Data Warehouse. Well respected, and I have some good friends who work there. Heck, even I almost ended up working there at one point. But when the Big Data craze and Hadoop came along, Teradata found themselves in a bit of a different position. The last few years…
My opinion of Oracle’s view on Hadoop is that Oracle positions Hadoop primarily a place to “acquire and organize” unstructured data for loading into Oracle Database or Exadata for analysis. To accomplish this, they have a software bundle called “Oracle Big Data connectors” which is an optional add on to the Oracle Big Data Appliance.…
Next up in the video blog series with myself and Dirk deRoos – we discuss Hortonworks. We both have lots of respect for Hortonworks, but we also think there are some differences and capabilities that are worth pointing out relative to the IBM BigInsights offering. Click on the image below to watch this short video.
Following up on last weeks post about Cloudera’s Impala “benchmarketing”, here is the latest video in the Hadoop competitive series – this time Dirk deRoos and I discuss Cloudera and how we think it stacks up relative to IBM’s BigInsights. Click on the image below to watch! (the link now works 🙂
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