Normally lists are the top 5 best, but here’s a post from GigaOm with a list of 5 low-profile startups that could change big data.
Dec 31
Oct 13
Agriculture company, Monsanto, is using BigCouch to manage its genome sequencing analysis. BigCouch is the commercialized version of the Apache CouchDB from Cloudant. Check out the Silicon Angle article.
Oct 04
Oracle has just announced their Big Data Appliance in this press release. There’s some NoSQL stuff in there related to Oracle’s ownership of Berkeley DB. There’s some Hadoop stuff in there. And there’s some R stuff too.
Check out the post on the O’Reilly radar blog for more info.
Oct 01
A few former Google employees have launched a new startup called Zillabyte to help users analyze lots of data. Their idea was to give other people access to the type of tools they had as Google employees. You’ll have to sign up on their site to get an invite if you want to see what they’re up to. One of the co-founders, Peter Harrington, is the author of Machine Learning in Action.
Here’s an article from Techcrunch.
Sep 08
The company may only be a few months old, but Platfora has just raised $5.7M to build out a data management platform for open source Hadoop. Their aim is to build tools for analysts to make working with big data easier. Check out the VentureBeat article and the Techcrunch article.
Sep 02
O’Reilly Media just announced the release of their ebook, Big Data Now. It’s a collection of all the Big Data related content they’ve published on the Radar blog over the past year.
Go download your copy today.
Aug 30
MapR announced a $20 million second round of funding today. Their aim is to bring Hadoop to the enterprise. MapR will use the new funds to scale their operations. Here’s the Venture Beat article.
