Apache Hadoop - Commercially Supported Hadoop-related Products

Commercially Supported Hadoop-related Products

There are a number of companies offering commercial implementations and/or providing support for Hadoop.

• Cloudera offers CDH (Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop) and Cloudera Enterprise.
• IBM offers WebSphere eXtreme Scale (formerly ObjectGrid) which includes two styles of the HADOOP map-reduce pattern in its "agents" a.k.a. DataGrid APIs. Together with its scalable distributed data cache capability, it gives both map-reduce's ability to parallelize function and the ability to store plenty of data (in memory) for the function to quickly access. It's transactional and highly available, too.
• IBM offers InfoSphere BigInsights based on Hadoop in both a basic and enterprise edition.
• Talend offers Talend Open Studio for Big Data, released under the Apache Software License, that includes native support for Apache Hadoop.
• Zettaset offers new version of its Big Data Mgt Platform based on Hadoop. Zettaset's Big Data Platform delivers High Availability via NameNode Failover, a streamlined UI, network Time Protocol and built in security via Kerberos Authentication
• In May 2010, Pentaho announced support for Apache Hadoop allowing companies to access data integration and business analytics directly against Apache Hadoop based distributions of Hadoop. In January 2012, Pentaho announced they made their big data integration capabilities freely under open source, and moved the entire Pentaho Kettle (data integration engine) project from the LGPL license to the Apache License.
• In March 2011, Platform Computing announced support for the Hadoop MapReduce API in its Symphony software.
• In May 2011, MapR Technologies, Inc. announced the availability of their distributed filesystem and MapReduce engine, the MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop. The MapR product includes most Hadoop eco-system components and adds capabilities such as snapshots, mirrors, NFS access and full read-write file semantics. MapR's distribution was selected by Amazon to provide premium versions of the Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) service.
• Silicon Graphics International offers Hadoop optimized solutions based on the SGI Rackable and CloudRack server lines with implementation services.
• EMC released EMC Greenplum Community Edition and EMC Greenplum HD Enterprise Edition in May 2011. The community edition, with optional for-fee technical support, consists of Hadoop, HDFS, HBase, Hive, and the ZooKeeper configuration service. The enterprise edition is an offering based on the MapR product, and offers proprietary features such as snapshots and wide area replication.
• In June 2011, Yahoo! and Benchmark Capital formed Hortonworks Inc., whose focus is on making Hadoop more robust and easier to install, manage and use for enterprise users.
• Google added AppEngine-MapReduce to support running Hadoop 0.20 programs on Google App Engine.
• In Oct 2011, Oracle announced the Big Data Appliance, which integrates Cloudera's Distribution Including Hadoop (CDH), Oracle Enterprise Linux, the R programming language, and a NoSQL database with the Exadata hardware.
• OceanSync Hadoop Management and Visualization Software allows users to control, monitor, and visualize all aspects of a Hadoop cluster including data analytic workflow management and output data processing visualization. The package is offered in three versions, OceanSync Free Desktop Edition, OceanSync Enterprise Edition with Visualization, and OceanSync Mobile for iPhone/Android devices, by Dovestech.
• Grand Logic's JobServer product allows developers and admins to deploy, manage and monitor their Hadoop infrastructure, with support for Hadoop job processing and HDFS file/content management.
• Dell added Pentaho Business Analytics to the Dell Apache Hadoop solution for big data analytics which consists of Dell servers, Dell networking components, Dell's Crowbar cloud deployment framework open source software, and Cloudera Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH).