Cloudera adds search to Hadoop distro and says it’s just getting started — Tech News and Analysis [GigaOm]

Excerpt from a timely big data analytics reality check

"The bigger picture here, though, is the encroachment of the open source Hadoop technology — whether sold by Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR or whomever — into the lucrative data management and analytics space once (and still) dominated by vendors selling expensive software and big-iron systems. For now, Olson said, technologies like Cloudera Impala and the new search feature will be less functional than their legacy counterparts (Teradata for data warehousing and Autonomy for enterprise search, for example), but that could change over time."

Cloudera adds search to Hadoop distro and says it’s just getting started — Tech News and Analysis