Hortonworks

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Hortonworks Inc.
legal form Incorporated
ISIN US4408941031
founding 2011
Seat Santa Clara , United States
management Robert Bearden, CEO
Number of employees 1,080
sales 184,460,000 USD
Branch Software company
Website www.hortonworks.com
As of December 31, 2016

Hortonworks is a software company headquartered in Santa Clara , California . The company focuses on the development of Apache Hadoop and the associated other Apache projects. Hortonworks offers its own distribution of Hadoop and various extensions under the name Hortonworks Data Platform.

history

Hortonworks was founded in June 2011 as an independent software company. Hortonworks is a spin-off of Yahoo and was funded with capital from Yahoo and Benchmark Capital of $ 23 million. The company was named after the elephant Horton from the book Horton Hears a Who! named. Hortonworks hosts the Hadoop Summit developer conference . Since December 12, 2014, the company has been listed on NASDAQ under the ID HDP .

In October 2018, Hortonworks and Cloudera announced that they would merge as equal partners. The merger took place on January 3, 2019.

Products

Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) is based on Apache Hadoop and includes Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), MapReduce , Pig, Hive, HBase and Zookeeper , among others . This platform is used to analyze, store and process large amounts of data (see Big Data ). The current version 2.5 of Hortonworks Data Platform was released on June 28, 2016.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b 2016 Form 10-K Report , accessed April 9, 2017
  2. Hadoop Big Data Startup Spins Out Of Yahoo. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  3. ^ Hortonworks: Yahoo outsources Hadoop department - Golem.de. Retrieved October 10, 2019 (German).
  4. Home. Retrieved October 10, 2019 (American English).
  5. Overview. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  6. Jump up ↑ Rainald Menge-Sonnentag: Cloudera and Hortonworks plan merger. Retrieved October 6, 2018 (German).
  7. ^ Cloudera and Hortonworks Complete Planned Merger. Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
  8. © 2019 Cloudera, Inc All rights reserved Terms, Conditions | Privacy Policy, Data Policy Apache Hadoop, associated open source project names are trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation For a complete list of trademarks: Cloudera | The enterprise data cloud company. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  9. Cloudera Blog -. Retrieved October 10, 2019 (American English).