Pentaho Becomes Face of Apache Hadoop

According to Joe Nicholson, vice president of product marketing for Pentaho, Hadoop is gaining in popularity among IT organizations that are collecting large amounts of data on a daily basis that exceeds the limit of existing database technology to effectively manage. In addition, IT organizations looking to reduce their database licensing costs are finding Hadoop to be an effective alternative for many applications that are not especially performance-sensitive.

Nicholson said Pentaho, a provider of open source business intelligence application software, is the first BI application vendor to support Hadoop across their full range of offerings and that this effort is in keeping with Pentaho’s goal to be seen as being a leader in terms of adding support for new emerging data models and application development methodologies.

Pricing for Pentaho support for Apache Hadoop has yet to be determined.