Here’s a roundup of interesting Big Analytics news and analysis from the past week. Featured this week: Hortonworks, Alpine, Spark and H2O. Hortonworks Matt Asay, writing in InfoWorld, deconstructs Hortonworks’ earnings fiasco, and with it the “100% open source” business model. Alpine Data Labs VentureBeat reports a story that Alpine Data Labs claims 10X growth in user count and billings year over year.
Read moreFirst, a review of last year’s predictions: (1) Apache Spark matures as the preferred platform for advanced analytics in Hadoop. At the New York Strata/Hadoop World conference in October, if you took a drink each time a speaker said “Spark”, you would struggle to make it past noon. At my lunch table, every single person said his company is currently
Read moreVentureBeat reports that 0xdata has secured $8.9 million in “A” round financing from six investors. (According to Crunchbase, the funding actually closed July 19). In the same article, VentureBeat also reports that 0xdata will change its name to H2O, aligning its corporate and product brands. Since I first reported on 0xdata/H2O earlier this year, the firm has doubled its user
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This is the second of a three-part series on the current state of play for machine learning in Hadoop. Part One is here. In this post, we cover open source options. As we noted in Part One, machine learning is one of several technologies for analytics; the broader category also includes fast queries, streaming analytics and graph engines. This
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Updated May 22, 2014 0xdata (“Hexa-data”) is a small group of smart people from Stanford and Silicon Valley with VC backing and an open source software project for advanced analytics (H2O). Founded in 2011, 0xdata first appeared on analyst dashboards in 2012 and has steadily built a presence in the data science community since then. 0xdata operates on a services
Read moreHere is a quick review of the capabilities for advanced analytics in Hadoop for five vendors at the recent Strata NYC conference: 0xData Alpine Data Labs Oracle SAS Skytree 0XData Product(s) H20 (open source project) h2o (R package) Description Smart people from Stanford with VC backing and a social media program. Services business model with open source software. H20 is an
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