Welcome to my co-author, Gartner analyst Sanjeev Mohan It’s been an eventful 6 months since Merv published the last of these trackers. The Hadoop ecosystem is far from dead, as many pundits predicted. Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) has begun to ship in bare metal, public cloud and private cloud versions. MapR is now HP EzmeralContinue reading “August 2020 Hadoop Apache Project Tracker”
Category Archives: Gartner
Open – For Business – At the ASF
The Apache Software Foundation is about to celebrate an anniversary, and its extraordinary contribution to the economic refactoring of software stacks seems to be gaining more momentum with every passing year. After three Gartner Data and Analytics events on 3 continents with thousands of attendees in the past 4 weeks, I find myself more impressedContinue reading “Open – For Business – At the ASF”
Microsoft Enters 2017 With 45 Offerings in Magic Quadrants
In Q1 2017, as always, we reset this chart – no bold or italic for new entries. As of January 20, no new MQs had yet been published in 2017 featuring Microsoft, so the picture below lays out a new picture for the year ahead. An addition or two late last year raise the totalContinue reading “Microsoft Enters 2017 With 45 Offerings in Magic Quadrants”
Microsoft in MQs – March On
In December 2014, I posted Microsoft’s Product Positions – Positive Progress, updating my quarterly map of the several dozen Gartner Magic Quadrants that feature Microsoft offerings. Welcome to the New Year. The progress I identified then has continued through Q1, as another product improved its position in a refresh (Advanced Analytic Platforms), and another (Enterprise Integration Platform as aContinue reading “Microsoft in MQs – March On”
Hadoop is in the Mind of the Beholder
This post was jointly authored by Merv Adrian (@merv) and Nick Heudecker (@nheudecker) and appears on both of our Gartner blogs. In the early days of Hadoop (versions up through 1.x), the project consisted of two primary components: HDFS and MapReduce. One thing to store the data in an append-only file model, distributed across anContinue reading “Hadoop is in the Mind of the Beholder”
Hadoop Summit Recap Part Two – SELECT FROM hdfs WHERE bigdatavendor USING SQL
Probably the most widespread, and commercially imminent, theme at the Summit was “SQL on Hadoop.” Since last year, many offerings have been touted, debated, and some have even shipped. In this post, I offer a brief look at where things stood at the Summit and how we got there. To net it out: offerings todayContinue reading “Hadoop Summit Recap Part Two – SELECT FROM hdfs WHERE bigdatavendor USING SQL”
Hadoop 2013 – Part Two: Projects
In Part One of this series, I pointed out that how significant attention is being lavished on performance in 2013. In this installment, the topic is projects, which are proliferating precipitously. One of my most frequent client inquiries is “which of these pieces make Hadoop?” As recently as a year ago, the question was pretty simple for most people:Continue reading “Hadoop 2013 – Part Two: Projects”