2012 Big Data Interesting Milestones

2012 was a fantastic year in terms of Big Data and Cloud Adoption. Massive Big Data focus and Products focussed on Big Data Analytics. Fortunately the world did not end as per Mayan Prediction.

 

How Traditional Players catch up in Big Data Space

• Traditional RDBMS Vendors MSSQL, ORACLE offering their own NOSQL Solutions, Hadoop Connectors to leverage the power of Hadoop and enhance their BI offerings
• IBM BigInsights Hadoop based Analytics Platform, Informatica and Microstrategy enhanced their Big Data Capabilities this year by providing integration with Hadoop Ecosystem
• Acquire Hadoop based Startups to catch up with Big Analytics

Real Time Analytics Trend in 2012 

• Cloudera launched Impala platform to provide Real Time Analytics
• Real Time Analytics based on Twitter Storm

Big Data Fifth Elephant Conference provided good insight on Big Data Use Cases and Adoption rates

Big Data Products

• Good Read - Big Data - Promising Startups
• Amazon Announced Redshift DataWarehousing as a service
• Google Launched BigQuery, Cloud Business Intelligence Service for Big Data

Indian Startups Working on Big Data / Leveraging Hadoop Ecosystem for Analytics

• Inmobi
• Qubole
• Flipkart

2013 Focus 

• Big Data Analytics Adoption across Industries (Verticals)
• Increased Implementation / Adoption of Big Data Products
• Columnar databases gaining more focus (Vertica, H-Store)
• Databases to watch out in 2013 - Hadapt (HadoopDB), H-Store(OLTP), F1(Google Distributed RDBMS) 

Interesting Big Data Reads

• Classifying Today’s “Big Data Innovators”
• The future is now: 10 startups leading the way in ‘big data’
• Major Data Warehousing Events of 2012 (and Predictions for 2013)

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