OpenRefine. Talend | Home. Product Overview. Big Data Right Now: Five Trendy Open Source Technologies. Big Data is on every CIO’s mind this quarter, and for good reason. Companies will have spent $4.3 billion on Big Data technologies by the end of 2012. But here’s where it gets interesting. Those initial investments will in turn trigger a domino effect of upgrades and new initiatives that are valued at $34 billion for 2013, per Gartner.
Over a 5 year period, spend is estimated at $232 billion. What you’re seeing right now is only the tip of a gigantic iceberg. Big Data is presently synonymous with technologies like Hadoop, and the “NoSQL” class of databases including Mongo (document stores) and Cassandra (key-values). But there are new, untapped advantages and non-trivially large opportunities beyond these usual suspects. Did you know that there are over 250K viable open source technologies on the market today? We have a lot of…choices, to say the least. What’s on our own radar, and what’s coming down the pipe for Fortune 2000 companies? Storm and Kafka Why should you care? Drill and Dremel. Data Warehouse Junkie. Business Intelligence fácil. TGX - HEFESTO.