Cloudera acquires Datapad; has Python client for Impala (SQL on Hadoop)

By Vasudev Ram

Saw this via a tweet by GigaOm.

Cloudera has acquired Datapad.

GigaOm article about it:

Cloudera bought DataPad because data scientists need tooling, too

Summary of the GigaOm article about the acquisition:

[ Cloudera has acquired a data-visualization startup called DataPad, the founding team of which specializes in data analysis using the Python programming language [1]. As Hadoop competition heats up, Cloudera might be ramping up its Python tooling in order to attract more data scientists and developers. ]

[1] The founders of DataPad (Wes McKinney and Chang She) are also the creators of the pandas Python library for data analysis.

Here are a few other interesting links related to Cloudera buying Datapad:

A New Python Client for Impala

I had blogged earlier about Cloudera's Impala engine that allows SQL querying of Hadoop data:

Cloudera's Impala engine - SQL querying of Hadoop data

SQL coming to Hadoop

Cloudera: Impala’s it for interactive SQL on Hadoop; everything else will move to Spark

Apache Spark - "Lightning-fast cluster computing"

Apache Spark page on Wikipedia

WIRED magazine article about Apache Spark:

Open Source Superstar Rewrites Future of Big Data

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"Free is only a tactic, though, not a business model." - GigaOm

By Vasudev Ram

I saw an interesting post by Fred Wilson:

Tenacity And Persistence Pays Off.

Fred's post also had a comment by Philip Sugar, to which I replied, asking for more info, and he replied, with a link in his comment to this post: The Penny Gap. That post had an interesting quote from an article on GigaOm:

[ To be fair to these VCs, they’re not advocating doing everything without pay. They’re suggesting free as a tactic towards getting paid in other ways: through advertising, or by premium services (as in a freemium model), or maybe even through being acquired by a company with a large wallet. Free is only a tactic, though, not a business model.

Conflating the two misleads web application developers into thinking they don’t need to do the hard work of figuring out what’s really of value to users before they build and launch their online service. ]

The GigaOm post is here: Free: a Tactic, not a Business Model



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Cirro lets non-technical people analyse big data

http://www.cirro.com/about-us/

Seen via this GigaOm article about Cirro:

http://gigaom.com/2012/06/25/cirro-makes-big-data-manageable-with-smart-set-of-tools/

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