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July 02, 2013

RainStor Obtains Hortonworks Certification for Data Platforms



RainStor, a provider of big data management databases and services, successfully completed product testing and benchmarks necessary to have its database certified on the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP).

Hortonworks tested Rainstor for data load, data compression and query response performance against financial services trade data. RainStor managed to load one billion records in 47 minutes on HDP, a 29X data compression rate. The certification endorses RainStor and its abilities on Apache Hadoop deployments.

Rainstor is the provider of one of the world’s most effective databases that makes it easy for users to reduce costs and compliance risks for their company information.

"RainStor's database product is architecturally designed to run on HDFS and with its efficient way of storing data in a highly compressed format, you not only gain savings as your data volumes grow but you also speed up query performance," Ajay Singh, director of Technical Channels at Hortonworks, said in a statement.

Hortonworks, the developer of a 100 percent open-source (Apache) Hadoop distribution, is one of the most successful Hadoop vendors in the world. HDP has all the tools required in order to manage a cluster at scale and uncover business insights from existing and new data sources.

"Enterprise organizations prefer Hortonworks Data Platform for its ability to support large-scale historical archiving and analysis," Julian Cook, SVP Business Development and Alliances at RainStor, said in a statement. "Companies using RainStor with Hortonworks Hadoop Platform can achieve a low-cost, highly flexible Big Data solution."

According to Steve Anderson at InfoTech Spotlight, Apache Hadoop is a big player in big data industry, and many different firms feature Hadoop in their 2013 predictions. It was also stated that RainStor believes 2013 will lead to companies looking to find other ways to handle their services instead of using Hadoop technology. In the end, seeing RainStor receive certification means that Hadoop is looking to have an equal, if not bigger year in the big data industry as it did back in 2012.

 




Edited by Rachel Ramsey
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