DataTorrent: Hard code around streaming data philosophy in 90 days

DataTorrent: Hard code around streaming data philosophy in 90 days

We give you streaming data applications in 90 days, no matter what. And we’ll do anything, including building on our closest competitor’s engine, to deliver.

We give you streaming data applications in 90 days, no matter what. And we’ll do anything, including building on our closest competitor’s engine, to deliver.

This is not something we are used to hearing, coming from Big Data vendor CEOs. But it’s the essence of what DataTorrent CEO Guy Churchward told ZDNet, on the occasion of the new version DataTorrent is releasing today.

DataTorrent RTS is the commercial incarnation of the Apache Apex streaming engine. As is typically the case with Apache open source projects, there is a vendor that guides the development of the project, commits resources, and offers a commercial, hardened version of the software with added components and services, support, SLAs and the like.

DataTorrent is that vendor in the case of Apache Apex. Or at least that’s what we thought. After talking to Churchward, we are not so sure anymore. DataTorrent was first covered for ZDNet by co-contributor Tony Baer a year ago, and the emphasis on delivering applications was already noted. But the release of DataTorrent RTS 3.10 today marks an interesting twist.

Read the full article on ZDNet


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