I was an early employee at Cloudera, am a Hadoop contributor and think this entire market is garbage. Basically the big data field went off the rails and this is Cloudera's way of trying to remain relevant. It's hard to point to a product that came after my tenure (I was on the team that original made the POS called Cloudera Manager) that's really used by anyone at scale. Cloud is displacing all of these tools and never got the clouds to play ball.
Good move for both companies. The surplus of 'enterprise hadoop' companies was created by a mixture of hype and a peak in VC investment in open source.<p>The fact that Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR were all founded and raised $100m+ around the same time was a bit superfluous for the whole market.<p>Hard to say where this leaves MapR now. They seem to be the odd man out in terms of growth and adoption.
Good move! Would help consolidate Hadoop ecosystem. MapR would find it hard to compete now.<p>Both these companies are being challenged with a new crop of Databricks and the confluents of the world.
Can someone explain to me what the big draw was for Hortonworks or Cloudera?<p>Working as a lead in a small team that deals with a colossal amount of data (human genomics), it was always easier for us to hand roll deployments with terraform/ansible in either baremetal or OpenStack environments.<p>In the public clouds like AWS we are using the managed services like EMR.<p>The whole sales pitch I've always got from either hortonworks or Cloudera always seemed more aimed at nontechnical stakeholders than the technical ones. Am I wrong? Have I missed out on some cool stuff?
Interestingly, none of them mention Hadoop. It makes sense to merge from a business point of view, and on a technical level it could finally mean more work on polishing the gazillion tools they include, which is badly needed.
Hadoop very "fancy" 5-6 years ago, what's the trend now? I guess with managed services from AWS / Google it makes Hadoop less useful?
> The two companies are committed to supporting existing offerings from the two companies for at least three years but will work on a "unity release" of software, drawing on technologies from both companies' portfolios, Reilly said.<p>I’m really intrigued to see whether Ambari or Cloudera Manager wins out in the long run. This is unexpected but interesting.<p>(I worked at Hortonworks 2014-2016, no current affiliation)
That's interesting. Been at their Hungarian office for a job interview (Hortonworks, a year or so ago), it was weird though. Haven't tried Cloudera, but they too have an office at Budapest, I wonder how it will effect their workforce in the region.
Looks like MapR has got something to say to people visiting their homepage, "Two wrongs don't make a right...
SEE WHY CLOUDERA AND HORTONWORKS CUSTOMERS HAVE MOVED TO MAPR!"
Lots of overlap between the two companies. I unfortunately expect a lot of layoffs on the Horton side of things, which is disappointing because I know quite a few people there.
Hmmm, merger slowdown market, employees beware of the trickery! this happens and then the mgmt thinks of redundancy to show markets how efficient they are ... is there a humane company which maybe does not pay much but secure enough and challenges us to rise together ... seems like a distant dream!