Big Data Vendor List
July 19, 2015
I scanned the Big Data list. I won’t linger too long. You can too. (Apologies to Robert Frost and “The Pasture.” The clarity part I will leave to you.)
The list appears in this article: “42 Big Data Startups.” One reader added 16 other companies. I am unclear. I tried to “wait to watch the water clear” but it did not.
Main thoughts:
- What’s a start up? A number in the companies in the list have been around for a while; for example, Talend was founded in 2005. Let’s see, despite the muddy water, that works out to a decade.
- Why is there just one company with “search” solutions on the list. The search-aware outfit is Datastax. But the company’s information access capability was not mentioned. The list totters as a result like the “little calf that’s standing by the mother.”
- What’s the rationale for clumping in an earthworm type laundry list services, software, applications that sit on top of data management systems, and outfits which focus on a niche like geolocation or search engine optimization? There are no horses, sheep, or pigs in the Frost poem. At least, I did not discern any nor did the person who came along.
Listicles can be interesting, humorous, and informative. Lists without logic are not particularly useful unless one is eager to demonstrate the importance of specified criteria and sort of useful classification of items in the list.
Stephen E Arnold, July 19, 2015
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