Big Data company Databricks 14 million dollars in investment

Today, big data attracts capital and market focus. According to foreign media reports, a mysterious U.S. large data company Databricks, recently received Andreessen Horowitz 14 million U.S. dollars investment. Databricks is the founder of the University of California's Berkeley large Data Lab director Ion Stoica and Apache Shark (much faster than hive query technology) Matei Zaharia.

It is understood that Andreessen Horowitz is Silicon Valley's top venture capital company, and its co-founder, Ben Horowitz, has invested in famous internet companies such as Groupon, Skype, Zynga, Foursquare and Facebook, Foreign media BusinessInsider hailed him as one of the 50 most authoritative angel investors in Silicon Valley, one of the board members of the U.S. Stock Exchange Committee (SEC).

And Databricks is also an entrepreneurial company, the purpose of the financing for the next generation of software analysis and large data extraction value, in addition, the site did not disclose too much information. But judging from the whole entrepreneurial team, the company has a very promising future. Scott Shenker is Nicira's former CEO and founder of Ion Stoica, director of the large Data Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, and Matei Zaharia is a developer of Apache shark technology. Team members are the heavyweight people in the open source community who are keen on "value-added Open-source software."

Databricks's main business is to help developers improve query, memory, and disk speed. The company also claimed that in the SQL operating environment, Apache query Speed 100 times times faster than the Apache hive, its automatic recognition speed than the Hadoop upgrade 100 times times.

Large data application to a certain extent represents the development trend of the IT industry, which may be the main reason VC investment in this field. Andreessen Horowitz spokesman declined to disclose more information on the investment, and the details of the cooperation between the two sides remain confidential. We will keep an eye on the dynamics of the event in the future.