Cloudera

Cloudera Inc. is a Palo Alto-based enterprise software company which provides Apache Hadoop-based software and services. It contributes to Hadoop and related Apache projects and provides a distribution for Hadoop for the enterprise.^[1] Cloudera has two products: Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) and Cloudera Enterprise. CDH is a data management platform which incorporates HDFS, Hadoop MapReduce, Hive, Pig, HBase, Sqoop, Flume, Oozie, ZooKeeper and Hue and is available free under an Apache license. Cloudera Enterprise is a package which includes Cloudera's Distribution including Apache Hadoop, production support and tools designed to make it easier to run Hadoop in a production environment. Cloudera offers services including support, consulting services and training (both public and private).

In March 2009, Cloudera announced the availability of CDH in conjunction with a $5 million capital injection led by Accel Partners.^[2] The launch was first announced by the New York Times.^[3]

In May 2010, Cloudera was named by Thomson Reuters’ Venture Capital Journal as the most promising startup funded in 2009.^[4]

The preferred demonym for an employee of Cloudera is "Clouderan."

See also

• Apache Software Foundation
• Big data
• BigTable
• Cloud computing
• Cloud infrastructure
• Database-centric architecture
• Datastructure
• Hadoop
• MapReduce
• HBase
• Online database
• Real time database

References

1. ^ "What is Hadoop?". http://www.cloudera.com/what-is-hadoop/. Retrieved 22 April 2010. 
2. ^ Wauters, Robin (16 March 2010). "Cloudera Raises $5 Million Series A Round For Hadoop Commercialization". TechCrunch. http://techcrunch.com/2009/03/16/cloudera-raises-5-million-series-a-round-for-hadoop-commercialization/. Retrieved 22 April 2010. 
3. ^ Vance, Ashlee (16 March 2010). "Bottling the Magic Behind Google and Facebook". The New York Times. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/bottling-the-magic-behind-google-and-facebook/. Retrieved 22 April 2010. 
4. ^ "Top 20 most promising startups". Reuters. 31 May 2010. http://blogs.reuters.com/small-business/2010/03/31/top-20-most-promising-startups/. Retrieved 22 April 2010. 

External links

• Official web site