Support for Hadoop and MapReduce Announced by Actuate

Support and services for Hadoop and MapReduce have been announced by Actuate Corporation. Actuate (News - Alert) Corporation is the top company in open source Business Intelligence. The organization is also the founder of the Eclipse BIRT open source project.

Hadoop is helping an increasing number of organizations to store massive amounts of data. Hadoop also provides scalable ways to explore, analyze and visualize the insights stored within it. Organizations will be now able to build information applications by combining BIRT’s open source, flexible approach to BI and Hadoop’s data scalability. This will provide valuable insight into data stored in Hadoop to the full range of end users including business analysts and non-technical users.

In a release, David Menninger, vice president and research director at Ventana Research said, “It is clear that there is a need in the market for analysis and exploration of large scale data. Increasingly, organizations that manage large amounts of structured relational data also need to process large amounts of semi-structured data such as the type found in web logs and application logs.”

According to Menninger, this need has been addressed by Eclipse BIRT 3.7 with its toolset for connecting to Hadoop. This source of unstructured and semi structured data can be therefore analyzed and explored by organizations.

Hive Query Language or HQL can be used to access Hadoop by application developers using Eclipse BIRT 3.7. Native access to Hadoop can be also provided by BIRT. This will allow Hadoop to be used as a data source for analysis, dashboards, reporting, custom BI and information applications. Data sets or data visualizations can be also built with BIRT. Hadoop data will be seamlessly combined through these data sets with other data sources like SQL databases, XML data, document archives and flat files.

Distributed computing for large data sets on hardware clusters is supported by the framework, MapReduce. Vast amounts of distributed data are managed by the open source framework, Hadoop. Both, Hadoop and MapReduce work in conjunction. Pre-built MapReduce functions and rules can be leveraged by Eclipse BIRT. Developers can therefore quickly get started on building applications to explore their Hadoop data.

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