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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer software |
| Founded | 2011; 15 years ago (2011) |
| Headquarters | , United States |
| Products | Hortonworks Data Platform,Hortonworks DataFlow, Hortonworks DataPlane |
Number of employees | ~1,110(2017)[1] |
| Parent | Cloudera |
| Website | Hortonworks.com |
Hortonworks, Inc. was a data software company based inSanta Clara, California that developed and supportedopen-source software (primarily aroundApache Hadoop) designed to managebig data and associated processing.
Hortonworks software was used to build enterprise data services and applications such asIoT (connected cars, for example), single view of X (such as customer, risk, patient), and advanced analytics andmachine learning (such as next best action and realtime cybersecurity). Hortonworks had three interoperable product lines:
In January 2019, Hortonworks completed its merger withCloudera.[3]
Hortonworks was formed in June 2011 as an independent company, funded by $23 millionventure capital fromYahoo! andBenchmark Capital. Its first office was inSunnyvale, California.[4] The company employed contributors to theopen source software projectApache Hadoop.[5] The Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) product, first released in June 2012,[6] included Apache Hadoop and was used for storing, processing, and analyzing large volumes of data. The platform was designed to deal with data from many sources and formats. The platform included Hadoop technology such as the Hadoop Distributed File System,MapReduce, Pig, Hive,HBase,ZooKeeper, and additional components.[7]
Eric Baldeschweiler (from Yahoo) was initial chief executive, and Rob Bearden chief operating officer, formerly fromSpringSource. Benchmark partnerPeter Fenton was a board member. The company name refers to the characterHorton the Elephant, since the elephant is the symbol for Hadoop.[4][8]
In October 2018, Hortonworks andCloudera announced they would be merging in an all-stock merger of equals.[9] After the merger, the Apache products of Hortonworks became Cloudera Data Platform.
