My list of 8 most interesting companies for the future of Hadoop didn’t try to include anyone having a product with the Hadoop word in it. But the list from InformationWeek does. To save you 15 clicks, here’s their list:

• Amazon Elastic MapReduce
• Cloudera
• Datameer
• EMC (with EMC Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform and EMC Data Computing Appliance)
• Hadapt
• Hortonworks
• IBM (InfoSphere BigInsights)
• Informatica (for HParser)
• Karmasphere
• MapR
• Microsoft
• Oracle

Original title and link: 12 Hadoop Vendors to Watch in 2012 (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)

Sifting through the PRish announcements related to Informatica HParser, what I’ve figured out so far is:

• it is the T in ETL
• a visual tool for creating parsing definitions for formats like web logs, XML, JSON, FIX, SWIFT, HL7, CDR, WORD, PDF, XLS, etc.
• transformations can be accessed from Hadoop MapReduce, Hive, or Pig
• the benefits of using HParser come from being able to share the same parsing definitions/transformations in the context of the Hadoop distributed environment
• HParser tries to provide an optimal transformation solution when streaming, splitting, and processing large files
• HParser is available in two licensing formats: community and commercial

Original title and link: What Is Informatica HParser for Hadoop? (NoSQL database©myNoSQL)