September 10th, 2012 — Data management
Total data reporting. Business value from Hadoop. and more.
And that’s the Data Day, today.
September 5th, 2012 — Data management
Basho joins CloudStack. Pentaho rides Hadoop wave. And more.
And that’s the Data Day, today.
August 28th, 2012 — Data management
Citrusleaf. Aerospike. AlchemyDB. Sqrrl. Percolator. Dremel. Pregel. And more.
And that’s the Data Day, today.
August 21st, 2012 — Data management
JustOne preps 2.0. Sqrrl raises $2m. Hadoop: can there be only one?
And that’s the Data Day, today.
August 17th, 2012 — Data management
Symantec teams CFS with Hadoop. Informatica Cloud. And more
And that’s the Data Day, today.
August 10th, 2012 — Data management
HP’s Autonomy problem. Excel 2013. And more.
And that’s the Data Day, today.
August 10th, 2012 — Data management
Back in December we published an assessment on the distribution of Hadoop skills, based on LinkedIn search results.
Thanks to a temporary lull in GB’s Olympic medal-winning exploits I ran the search again the other day. The results are pretty interesting for a number of reasons.
First the headline stats:
- There are over 22,000 people with Hadoop in their LinkedIn profiles, up from just over 9,000 in December 2011, an increase of over 144% in eight months.
- Hadoop skills are becoming more evenly distributed: 60.4% of LinkedIn members with Hadoop in the profiles are based in the US, compared to 64.5% in December 2011.
- Growth areas include India (11.9% from 9.7%), China (4.4% from 3.6%, and the UK (3.4% from 3.0%).
- However, the Bay Area remains the best place to find Hadoop enthusiasts, with 24.9% (albeit down from 28.2% eight months ago)

This time I also ran a similar search for MapReduce skills. The headline results:
- MapReduce is mentioned in 6,424 LinkedIn profiles.
- MapReduce skills are more evenly distributed: 61.9% of LinkedIn members with MapReduce in their profiles are based in the US, 38.1% in the rest of the world.
- That said, over a quarter (25.9%) of LinkedIn members with MapReduce in their profiles are based in the Bay area.
- Other geographic hotspots are India (8.7%), Seattle area (5.8%), and NYC area (4.8%).
This time I also looked at which vendors are listed as the current employers of LinkedIn members citing Hadoop and MapReduce. One really surprising result stood out:
- Microsoft is the second largest employer of both Hadoop and MapReduce skills, according to LinkedIn member profiles
- Redmond employs 1.7% of all LinkedIn members with Hadoop in their profiles, and 3.0% of members with MapReduce in their profiles
- Yahoo is the largest employer of Hadoop skills (2.9%), with other ‘non-vendors’ also well represented: Google (1.3%), eBay (also 1.3%), Amazon (1.2%), LinkedIn (1.1%).
- Google is by far the largest employer of MapReduce skills, as you might expect, with 7.1%. Also well represented are Yahoo (2.7%), Amazon (1.8%) and LinkedIn (1.4%).


August 8th, 2012 — Data management
Who loves Hadoop? Who doesn’t?
And that’s the Data Day, today.
July 27th, 2012 — Data management
Special Twitter crash double edition. TransLattice, SAP, Lavastorm, QlikTech. And more.
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July 18th, 2012 — Data management
Basho enters Japan. US Senate/NSA open source policy and NoSQL design brouhaha.
And that’s the Data Day, today.