Hortonworks

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Hortonworks
Type Private
Industry Computer software
Founded 2011
Headquarters Palo Alto, California
Products Hortonworks Data Platform
Website www.hortonworks.com

Hortonworks is a business computer software company based in Palo Alto, California. The company focuses on the development and support of Apache Hadoop, a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers.

History

Hortonworks was formed in June 2011 funded by $23 million from Yahoo! and Benchmark Capital as an independent company.[1] The company employs contributors to the open source software project Apache Hadoop.[2] The company was named after Horton the Elephant of the Horton Hears a Who! book. Eric Baldeschweiler was chief executive, and Rob Bearden chief operating officer, formerly from SpringSource.[1] Additional investors included a $25 million round led by Index Ventures in November 2011.[3]

Hortonworks is a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation.[4]

Forrester Research named Hortonworks “the technology leader and ecosystem builder for the entire Hadoop industry.”[5]

Hortonworks' product named Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) includes Apache Hadoop and is used for storing, processing, and analyzing large volumes of data. The platform is designed to deal with data from many sources and formats. The platform includes various Apache Hadoop projects including the Hadoop Distributed File System, MapReduce, Pig, Hive, HBase and Zookeeper and additional components.[6]

In October 2011 Hortonworks announced Microsoft would collaborate on a Hadoop distribution for Windows Azure and Windows Server.[7] On February 25, 2013, Hortonworks announced availability of a beta version of the Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows.[citation needed]

In November 2011 it announced HParser software from Informatica would be available for free download by its customers.[8]

In February 2012 Teradata announced an alliance.[9] In October 2012 Teradata's Aster Data Systems division announced an appliance supporting Hortonworks' distribution,[10][11] and Impetus Technologies announced a partnership.[12]

In June 2013 Hortonworks raised another $50 million in financing, from previous investors and adding Tenaya Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group.[13] In September 2013 SAP AG announced it would resell the Hortonworks distribution (as well as another one).[14]

Hortonworks hosts the Hadoop Summit community event, along with Yahoo!.[15]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Charles Babcock (June 29, 2011). "Hadoop Big Data Startup Spins Out Of Yahoo". Information Week. Archived from the original on July 4, 2011. Retrieved October 14, 2013. 
  2. ↑ "Big-data investors look for the next Splunk". CNBC. Retrieved 24 April 2012. 
  3. ↑ Derrick Harris (August 20, 2013). "Everything you ever wanted to know about Yahoo’s Hadoop spinoff Hortonworks". Giga Om. Retrieved October 14, 2013. 
  4. ↑ Sponsors, Apache Software Foundation
  5. ↑ Hortonworks Recognized as a Leader in the Enterprise Hadoop Solutions Industry by Independent Research Firm, MarketWatch, 2011-2-6
  6. ↑ Joab Jackson (November 1, 2011). "HortonWorks Hones a Hadoop Distribution". PC World. Retrieved October 14, 2013. 
  7. ↑ Jaikumar Vijayan (October 12, 2011). "Microsoft climbs onto Hadoop bandwagon". Computer World. Retrieved October 14, 2013. 
  8. ↑ Chris Preimesberger (November 2, 2011). "Informatica, Hortonworks Team Up to Release Free Data Parser for Hadoop". e Week. Retrieved October 14, 2013. 
  9. ↑ Quentin Hardy (February 21, 2012). "Teradata and Hortonworks Join Forces for a Big Data Boost". Bits blog (The New York Times). Retrieved October 14, 2013. 
  10. ↑ Tony Baer (October 26, 2012). "It's happening: Hadoop and SQL worlds are converging". ZDNet. Retrieved October 14, 2013. 
  11. ↑ "Teradata Big Analytics Appliance Enables New Business Insights on All Enterprise Data". Press release (Teradata Aster). October 17, 2012. Retrieved October 14, 2013. 
  12. ↑ Pletus (October 2, 2012). "Impetus and Hortonworks Strategic Partnership". Press release. Retrieved October 14, 2013. 
  13. ↑ Alex Williams (June 25, 2013). "Hortonworks Raises $50M For Expansion And Development In Growing Hadoop Oriented Data Analytics Market". Tech Crunch. Retrieved October 14, 2013. 
  14. ↑ Chris Kanaracus (September 11, 2013). "SAP looks to boost 'big data' position with Hadoop deals, new apps". Computer World. Retrieved October 14, 2013. "SAP agrees to resell Hadoop distributions from Intel and Hortonworks; unveils specialized use case apps" 
  15. ↑ "Sponsors". Hadoop Summit 2013 web site. Archived from the original on April 30, 2013. Retrieved October 14, 2013. 

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