Hortonworks, Inc. was a data software company based in

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that developed and supported

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(primarily around

Apache Hadoop Apache Hadoop () is a collection of open-source software utilities for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. It provides a software framework for distributed storage and processing of big data using the MapReduce programming model. Hadoop wa ...

) designed to manage

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and associated processing. Hortonworks software was used to build enterprise data services and applications such as IoT (connected cars, for example), single view of X (such as customer, risk, patient), and advanced analytics and

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(such as next best action and realtime cybersecurity). Hortonworks had three interoperable product lines: * Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP): based on

Apache Hive Apache Hive is a data warehouse software project. It is built on top of Apache Hadoop for providing data query and analysis. Hive gives an SQL-like Interface (computing), interface to query data stored in various databases and file systems that i ...

Apache Spark Apache Spark is an open-source unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing. Spark provides an interface for programming clusters with implicit data parallelism and fault tolerance. Originally developed at the University of Californ ...

* Hortonworks DataFlow (HDF): based on Apache NiFi, Apache Storm,

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* Hortonworks DataPlane services (DPS): based on Apache Atlas and Cloudbreak and a pluggable architecture into which partners such as

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can add their services. In January 2019, Hortonworks completed its merger with

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History

Hortonworks was formed in June 2011 as an independent company, funded by $23 million

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from

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and

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. Its first office was in

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. The company employed contributors to the

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project

. The Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) product, first released in June 2012, included Apache Hadoop and was used for storing, processing, and analyzing large volumes of data. The platform was designed to deal with data from many sources and formats. The platform included Hadoop technology such as the Hadoop Distributed File System,

MapReduce MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating big data sets with a parallel and distributed algorithm on a cluster. A MapReduce program is composed of a ''map'' procedure, which performs filte ...

, Pig, Hive,

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, and additional components. Eric Baldeschweiler (from Yahoo) was initial chief executive, and Rob Bearden chief operating officer, formerly from

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. Benchmark partner Peter Fenton was a board member. The company name refers to the character Horton the Elephant, since the elephant is the symbol for Hadoop. In October 2018, Hortonworks and

announced they would be merging in an all-stock merger of equals. After the merger, the Apache products of Hortonworks became Cloudera Data Platform.

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