GigaOm and RWW have coverage of the 5 Hadoop-related announcements:

• DataStax Brisk: Hadoop and Hive on Cassandra
• NetApp Hadoop Shared DAS

• Mellanox Hadoop-Direct

  increase throughput in Hadoop clusters via its ConnectX-2 adapters with Hadoop Direct

• SnapLogic SnapReduce

  SnapReduce transforms SnapLogic data integration pipelines directly into MapReduce tasks, making Hadoop processing much more accessible and resulting in optimal Hadoop cluster utilization.

• EMC GreenplumHD

  Greenplum HD combines the Hadoop analytics platform with Greenplum’s database technology.

Ways to look at it:

• 2 large corporations getting into Hadoop
• 2 software solutions, 3 hardware solutions
• 1 open source project, 4 commercial products or
• 4 companies wanting to make a profit from Hadoop without contributing back to the community

Original title and link: Hadoop Ecosystem: EMC, NetApp, Mellanox, SnapLogic, DataStax (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)

DataStax kept its promise and released Brisk: the Hadoop and Hive distribution using Cassandra, also known as Brangelina.

According to the official documentation, Brisk key advantages:

• No single point of failure
• streamlined setup and operations
• analytics without ETL
• full integration with DataStax OpsCenter

Useful links:

• Getting started with Brisk
• Download Brisk
• GitHub project

Original title and link: DataStax Hadoop on Cassandra Brisk Released (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)

Now that’s a title: The Brangelina of Big Data: Cassandra mates with Hadoop. Open source celebrity supercouple. The article is a genealogy tree: Hadoop, Hive, Cassandra, DataStax.

Original title and link: Brisk: The Brangelina of Big Data (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)

I just heard the announcement DataStax, the company offering Cassandra services, made about Brisk a Hadoop and Hive distribution built on top of Cassandra:

Brisk provides integrated Hadoop MapReduce, Hive and job and task tracking capabilities, while providing an HDFS-compatible storage layer powered by Cassandra.

Brisk was announced officially during the MapReduce panel at Structure Big Data event. But it looks like others have already had a chance to hear about Brisk — is there something that I should be doing to hear the “unofficial” announcements?

DataStax has also made available a whitepaper: “Evolving Hadoop into a Low-Latency Data Infrastructure: Unifying Hadoop, Hive and Apache Cassandra for Real-time and Analytics” that you can download from here

Original title and link: Cassandra + Hadoop = Brisk by DataStax (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)

DataStax OpsCenter for Apache Cassandra

DataStax (ex-Riptano) announced yesterday their tool for managing including sophisticated visualizations of the cluster, comprehensive management and configuration, monitoring and operating enterprise Cassandra applications named OpsCenter.

DataStax OpsCenter for Apache Cassandra will require a subscription, but a developer version, not to be used in production, will be made available too.

Call me an idealist, but I would have suggested a different than Gold/Silver/Bronze or Mission-Critical/Premier model:

• 1-5 nodes: free (nb: good kharma)
• 6-low tens of nodes: moderately priced package
• premier: everything else

EMC Greenplum Community Edition

After acquiring Greenplum^[1], EMC is making available a community edition:

[…] the new EMC Greenplum Community Edition removes the cost barrier to entry for big data power tools empowering large numbers of developers, data scientists, and other data professionals. This free set of tools enables the community to not only better understand their data, gain deeper insights and better visualize insights, but to also contribute and participate in the development of next-generation tools and solutions. With the Community Edition stack, developers can build complex applications to collect, analyze and operationalize big data leveraging best of breed big data tools including the Greenplum Database with its in-database analytic processing capabilities.

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I couldn’t find the details of the community edition license, but instead I’ve found this:

The software is only intended for research, development and experiments, with license purchases required for commercial uses.

About the (marketing) rationale behind this release you can read more on Chuck Hollis’, Global Marketing CTO, blog

Original title and link: New Tools in the NoSQL and Big Data Market (NoSQL databases © myNoSQL)