TechNavio, a tech-focused research firm, has published a list of the Top 16 Hadoop-as-a-Service Companies which includes firms like AWS, EMC, IBM, Microsoft and Hortonworks. TechNavio has prepared the list to accompany a recently published report on the Global Hadoop-as-a-Service Market.
“HDaaS vendors provide the Hadoop platform as a web-based subscription service on a pay-per-use basis,” said Faisal Ghaus, Vice President of TechNavio. This makes the technology more cost-effective and less time-consuming for enterprises.”
Apache Hadoop is an open-source software platform that uses MapReduce technology to perform distributed computations on various hardware servers. HDaaS eliminates on-premise hardware by implementing Hadoop architecture as well as the supporting applications in a cloud environment.
The Global HDaaS market was valued at US$0.62 billion in 2014 and is expected to top US$13 billion by 2019, growing at a CAGR of 84.81 percent.
The list with Top 16 Hadoop-as-a-Service Companies published by TechNavio can be found here.
Founded in 2003, TechNavio has about 200 analysts globally and develops over 2000 pieces of research every year, covering more than 500 technologies across 80 countries.
