Hadoop start-up revenues and valuations soar

Is the big data a bubble or a gold mine? The broad focus of business, the media and even the public is just a symptom, and the most persuasive data comes from the valuations of Hadoop startups, which are big data-related.

Hadoop startups are mostly not on the market, so there's not much accurate data on the size and growth of the markets yet, but we still have the ability to see the leopard in terms of the size of the big data VC case and the number of Hadoop start-up employees, A general understanding of the scale of large data ventures represented by Hadoop startups.

The financing statistics of Hadoop start-up company

Because the big data core technology Hadoop is a free open source technology that users can download without paying, this means that the profit model for Hadoop startups is very different from the traditional database giants such as Oracle, which Hadoop startups rely on to deliver Hadoop value-added products (software licensing fees ) and value-added services to earn money. But the growth rate of Hadoop startups was staggering, Cloudera 2009 years ago, and Hortonworks was founded in June 2011, less than 1.5. The two are also large data vendors (the core business revolves around the Hadoop distribution and the Hadoop app), and the companies that do Hadoop integration are springing up.

Gigaom recently conducted a statistical survey of the financing of large data start-ups, as shown below:

As can be seen from the figure, Cloudera, Hortonworks and MAPR are currently the highest financing "Hadoop Troika", the table listed in the Hadoop start-up company Total financing size of about 200 million dollars.

Rapid growth in revenue and valuation

Venture capital rushes to gold at the same time, what is the overall revenue scale of the big data market? IDC predicted in May this year that the market for the Hadoop ecosystem would soar from $77 million trillion in the current five years to $813 million in 2016. But IDC's data have been questioned by the industry, such as not counting Amazon's resilient MapReduce service revenues (at least $ millions of a year). Mike Olson, chief executive of Cloudera, also said the forecast was biased and did not even take into account Cloudera's income. It is reported that Cloudera current business development good, this year's revenue is expected to reach 100 million U.S. dollars, or even more. As early as 2011, Cloudera executives had revealed that Cloudera's software-authorized sales revenue had exceeded service revenues for the first time.

The industry has also rumoured that Hortonworks has rejected at least one offer, for the simple reason that Hortonworks's valuations are soaring. In the latest round of funding, Hortonworks's valuation has reached $225 million trillion. Although Hortonworks's first product was released in June this year, it is impressive that Hortonworks has worked with Microsoft, Teradata, Rackspace, VMware and other major manufacturers to reach a cooperative relationship.

The mapr of the Cloudera and Hortonworks, also known as the Hadoop Troika, is doing well, and the company's software-authorized revenue will grow rapidly as it cooperates with Amazon AWS and Google's computing engine (Google Compute Engine), According to Jack Norris, vice president of the company's market, MAPR is expected to become the most software-authorized Hadoop start-up in the fourth quarter of 2012.

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