The Forrester Wave: Big Data Hadoop Distributions, Q1 2016
Hadoop is data’s darling for a reason — it thoroughly disrupts the economics of data, analytics, and data-driven applications.
Enterprise adoption is mandatory for firms that wish to double-down on advanced analytics and create insights-driven applications to help them succeed in the age of the customer. Application development and delivery (AD&D) pros can start here with Forrester’s 35-criteria evaluation of five Hadoop distributions from vendors: Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM, MapR Technologies, and Pivotal Software.