Hortonworks

Overview

Hortonworks provides a commercial version of Apache Hadoop and related technologies. Its offering, Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), is based on Apache Big Data projects that helps organizations in storing, managing and analyzing big data. HDP is based around HDFS and YARN, that enables multi-workload data processing across various processing methods, from batch to interactive SQL to real-time. The platform offers integration capabilities with tools for security, operations management and and data governance, thus enabling a complete big data ecosystem. All the components of distribution are the Apache opensource projects and no proprietary software is included. It has strategic partnerships with HP, Microsoft, Rackspace, Red Hat, SAP, Teradata and Yahoo. It is recognized as a leader in the Forrester Wave on Big Data Hadoop Solutions in 2014. Hortonworks went public in Dec 2014.

Key facts

Founded

2011

Headquarters

Palo Alto, United States

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Industry

Enterprise Software & Infrastructure