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Hadoop's growth sparks competition


By Alex Handy


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June 29, 2011 —  (Page 1 of 3)
When Hadoop first appeared as an open-source framework for scalable distribution computing with large data sets—back in 2009—the project was a lone player in a seemingly empty marketplace. But two years later, a dozen startups are all vying for the Hadoop crown. A big player has just entered the market: At this year's Hadoop Summit, Yahoo entered the fray by spinning off its own internal Hadoop group as Hortonworks.

Another sign of growth: This year's event saw 27 sponsors, all of whom are eager to cash in on this popular open-source ecosystem. By contrast, the 2010 summit had only seven sponsors.

Among last year's sponsors were Hadoop-specific companies such as Karmasphere and Datameer. This year, however, big names like Dell, IBM, NetApp and Supermicro were all sponsoring the event.

Matt Aslett, senior analyst at The 451 Group, said, "As interest in Hadoop expands from early adopters to mainstream enterprise and government users, we are increasingly seeing the focus shift from development and testing to understanding potential use cases for the core distribution to the value-added tools and services that will enable and accelerate enterprise adoption."

Interested players
Hortonworks is now just another in a chorus line of Hadoop consulting and services firms. A recent article about Hadoop written on technology news site GigaOM estimated Cloudera's revenues as a few million dollars, and it pointed out that despite high interest from enterprises, the Hadoop market remains almost exclusively a consultancy-based market, not a product-based market.

And because consulting services don’t scale and rarely bring in the big profits like products can, Hortonworks and other Hadoop firms are facing an uphill battle.

Still, as the Hadoop ecosystem continues to expand and new solutions pop up almost daily, it is the developers who benefit from all of this innovation, even if firms aren't yet buying Hadoop packages instead of free versions.

And still other firms are spending their time and money on integrating Hadoop into existing process flows, which can often call for packaged software. For these folks, traditional integrations and data management firms have stepped up to the plate.


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