Cloudera: A Red Hat for Hadoop
October 16, 2008
On October 13, 2008, I read a Web log post written by Amr Awadallah here. The title was “The Startup Is Cloudera, The Business Is Hadoop MapReduce.” The company seemed to be a services play. Then I read Valleywag’s “Bear Stearns, Facebook Escapee Set to Inflate Open Source Bubble” here and I realized that the company may get venture money and morph into another challenge to the Codd database champions IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle. You can get Network World’s take on Cloudera here. I have tracked Aster Data and InfoBright because the problems of information access are often not search; the deal breaker is the data management component. Hadoop is a variant of Google’s own technology. My research suggests that Google continues to improve its technology. A good example is US7437364 granted on October 14, 2008 “System and Method of Accessing a Document Efficneeintly through Multi Tier Web Caching”. Companies built on technology Google contributes to open source can generate a solid revenue stream, but the Hadoop technology is not Google’s technology. Cloudera can support Hadoop, but in order to turn in hockey stick type growth, the company will have to do more than rent engineers. I can’t get too excited about the Cloudera play until I know more about the company’s plans to differentiate itself from other engineering consultancies. I do like the Red Hat for Hadoop angle, however. It’s catchy.
Stephen Arnold, October 16, 2008
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Hi Stephen,
Thanks for the mention. We announced the release of Aster nCluster 3.0 a couple weeks ago, along with a few customers among social web players. A lot of engineering has gone into making our MapReduce implementation enterprise-class, and easily accessible by SQL and BI tools. You can read more on our blog, but we would love to meet up and walk you through it if you would like – just send me a note.