What opportunities exist for deeper integration? Currently, customers are putting together solutions leveraging HBase, Phoenix, Hive etc. to build bespoke a closed-loop system for operational data and SQL analytics. We feel there is an opportunity to provide out-of-the-box integration with ease of use and additional capabilities such as transactions, cross datacenter failover etc.
Hive, HBase and Phoenix all have very active community of developers and are used in production in countless organizations. These are solid, proven operational capabilities that can be the foundation and future of transaction processing on Hadoop.
So, using the same approach as the successful Stinger Initiative, Hortonworks looks to invest further in these core projects and build momentum as opposed to abandoning them and starting over. We plan to invest in improvements that further an integrated operational and analytical experience via a tightly integrated Hive and HBase. This addresses real and interesting use cases in a way that preserves investments and drives real value for customers.
We see four major development areas to help realize the vision of intelligent applications: