Big Data startup Platfora pulls in $20M to ‘make Hadoop amazing’

November 13, 2012 4:30 AM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

Platfora, the startup that made a splash at the recent Strata conference with its flagship product to "unleash the potential of Hadoop," has raised its second round of funding.

‘Big data’ startup Splice Machine breathes new life into SQL, pulls in $4M

October 17, 2012 9:21 AM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

In the ongoing battle between the NoSQL and SQL databases, Splice Machine is one of the few young companies that has come down firmly on the side of the latter.

Precog publicly launches, promises to be the Twilio of ‘big data’ analytics

September 24, 2012 9:51 AM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

For businesses, building 'big data' capabilities is far easier said than done. Precog wants to change that by making it easier for companies to ask questions about their data.