If you go to any big data conference or get in a room full of businesspeople concerned with Hadoop, the question will inevitably arise of which Hadoop vendor is going to win (whatever that means). Will it be Cloudera? Hortonworks? MapR? Intel?! As far as I’m concerned, the answer is that they all have their own strengths and weaknesses, but they’re also all struggling with a big, hairy and hugely important question: How do we innovate without cannibalizing customer support and without offending Hadoop’s open source sensibilities?
The problem is that the business of Hadoop is something like bacteria in a petri dish: It’s an experiment in building an entirely new market out of open source software, and no one is quite sure how it will evolve or what effects certain decisions will have.
Out in the real world, though — at places such as Facebook and Twitter — there are other strains of Hadoop developing. Strains that might make those lab versions a lot stronger.
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