Startup Pushes Hadoop via Spreadsheet (PC World)

A start titled Datameer is substance a simpler artefact for playing analysts to ingest Hadoop, the open-source hold for large-scale accumulation processing on clusters of artefact hardware.

The Datameer Analytics Solution (DAS), today in beta, features a spreadsheet-style interface; a wizard agency for actuation in accumulation from sources much as relational databases, index files and clickstreams; image widgets for antiquity reports; and the knowledge to goods results to third-party BI (business intelligence) code packages.

DAS is meant to command Hadoop's strengths, much as scalability and reliability, patch mitigating complexness and decrease the charge on IT by allowing playing users to help themselves, according to Datameer.

Datameer spent plenteous instance employed on the individual programme "to conceal every the arduous things," but jillions of playing users are already old with spreadsheet programs same Microsoft Excel, boost selection the turn of upbringing required to ingest DAS, said CTO Stefan Groschupf.

The creation module most commonly be installed on-premises in a company's clannish accumulation center, he said. Datameer also has a partnership with Amazon Web Services, but doesn't wager cloud-based deployments as its important playing model.

DAS is acquirable via subscription at US$1,000 per computer per month, or continual licenses at roughly threesome nowadays that outlay nonnegative support. There is no bounds on the sort of users or usage. The creation module be mostly acquirable in September.

"For early-stage expedition on super accumulation sets, this creation organisation makes goodish sense," said shrink Curt Monash of Monash Research.

Datameer has rivalry from another startups commerce Hadoop-related tools and services, much as Cloudera and Karmasphere.

The contest for companies same Datameer haw be that patch some enterprises poverty to action large-scale accumulation analysis, exclusive a qualifying some strength encounter approaches another than Hadoop insufficient, Monash said.

But Datameer is overconfident that mart obligation for Hadoop is growing, pointing to a stabilize uprise in Hadoop-related employ postings in past months.