open source
Our Commitment to Open Source Software
Open source has been core to the missions of both Hortonworks and Cloudera and central to our values and culture. With more than 700 engineers in the new Cloudera, our company writes a prodigious amount of open source code each…
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Introducing Cloudera DataFlow (CDF)
Late last year, the news of the merger between Hortonworks and Cloudera shook the industry and gave birth to the new Cloudera – the combined company with a focus on being an Enterprise Data Cloud leader and a product offering…
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IoT: Make Mine a Standard
Standards and open source are closely linked. Open source allows you to stay on the cutting edge, to have the latest and most innovative technologies at your disposal at all times. No one company is going to outpace the rate…
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Everyone Wants Flexibility And Freedom. Or Should.
Flexibility to alter and extend your most vital software assets is more important today than ever before, giving open source software an enormous advantage. Traditional software vendors aren’t able to keep up with what’s happening. Just look at the reality…
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Everyone Wants Flexibility And Freedom. Or Should.
Flexibility to alter and extend your most vital software assets is more important today than ever before, giving open source software an enormous advantage. Traditional software vendors aren’t able to keep up with what’s happening. Just look at the reality…
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It’s Only Rock and Roll
It’s only Rock and Roll, but I like it! – Mick Jagger Copyright is having a tough time in the digital age. New copies of music, movies and software can be created at near zero cost. Some wonder whether it…
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Cloudera 5.2: Hadoop Innovation without Compromise
One year ago, we announced Cloudera’s vision for the enterprise data hub – a unified platform built on Hadoop to store and process all your data (in any format), with the security, management, and governance needed for production deployment. Our…
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A Look Back at Spark as the Open Standard
This blog post was jointly written by Cloudera (Alex Gutow), Intel (Weihua Jiang), and MapR (Nitin Bandugula) – all companies that are part of the Hive-on-Spark Team As one of the most popular tools in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, there’s been…
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Bringing the Community Together with Parquet
This blog post was jointly written by Cloudera (Justin Kestelyn), MapR (Dale Kim), and Twitter (Julien Le Dem) – all contributing companies to the Apache Parquet project: Since its founding in July 2013, Apache Parquet (incubating) has taken the Apache Hadoop…
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Compatibility and Innovation: Where One Ends, the Other Begins
As Marten Mickos, one of the masters of successfully monetizing open source software, has often pointed out, open source is a “production model”, not a business model unto itself. The relationship between Cloudera’s open source platform and Apache Hadoop is…
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