• February 27th, 2013

    How The Big Data Battle Is Shaking Out Between The Startups And The Enterprise Giants

    The big systems companies are starting to put pressure on the startups in the growing field of data analytics. But the pressure is not as much related to innovation as it is to using their marketing muscle to build software stacks they can sell to retain existing customers. → Read More

    February 27th, 2013

    JethroData Raises $4.5M For New Analytics Database That Addresses Hadoop’s Achilles Heel

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    JethroData, an analytics database company based upon Hadoop, announced today it has closed a $4.5 million investment round led by Pitango Venture Capital.

    JethroData, based in Israel, combines the storage scalability of Hadoop with the query performance of a fully-indexed, columnar analytic database. → Read More

    August 20th, 2012

    Sqrrl Raises $2 Million For Secure, Scalable Big Data Technology Originally Developed At NSA

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    Sqrrl, a big data startup that came out of development at the National Security Agency (NSA), has raised $2 million in seed funding from Matrix Partners and Atlas Ventures.

    The Sqrrl technology is promised to provide a secure, scalable and easily adaptable way for companies to manage big data.

    Here’s the problem with big data that Sqrrl hopes to solve: → Read More