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Mike Olson predicts MapReduce compute cycles in Hadoop clusters will approach zero
“I think the percentage of cycles spent on MapReduce in Hadoop clusters generally is going to asymptotically approach zero. That's not because there will be less MapReduce happening, but because there will be so much of the other stuff happening.”
Big data market has the potential to surpass relational database market size
“I think that there's an opportunity for the big data market to be much bigger than the relational database market was, right?”
Majority of big data market spend will go to applications, not platforms
“The lion's share of the money spent in the market Is going to be for apps, not for the platform.”
Hadoop's shared-nothing architecture does not easily translate to OLAP or OLTP workloads
“Hadoop, this big scale-out, shared-nothing architecture, is good at much, but that architecture doesn't easily translate into OLAP or OLTP workloads.”
Intel acquired an 18 percent equity stake in Cloudera for $740 million
“Intel spent seven hundred forty million dollars and acquired an 18% stake in Cloudera.”
IBM began offering open-source alternatives within 2.5 years of Cloudera's founding
“At two and a half years, IBM was looking at what we were doing and offering their own open source alternatives, so.”
Annual spend on relational database tools is double the underlying platform spend
“Seventy billion annually is spent on services and applications and tools on top, right? So more than twice as big as the platform play is The tools play.”