BIG DATA 50 The hottest big data startups of 2014 Jeff Vance Table of Contents Big Data Startup Landscape – Overview .................................................................................. i About the Author ................................................................................................................. iii Introduction – the Big Data Boom .......................................................................................... 1 Notes on Methodology & the origin of the Big Data 50 ............................................................. 2 The Big Data 50 ..................................................................................................................... 5 Poised for Explosive Growth ....................................................................................................... 5 Entrigna ................................................................................................................................... 5 Nuevora ................................................................................................................................... 7 Roambi .................................................................................................................................... 9 Machine Learning Mavens ........................................................................................................ 10 Oxdata ................................................................................................................................... 10 Ayasdi .................................................................................................................................... 11 BigML .................................................................................................................................... 12 Context Relevant ................................................................................................................... 13 Skytree ................................................................................................................................... 14 Sumo Logic ............................................................................................................................ 15 Built for Speed........................................................................................................................... 16 DataTorrent ........................................................................................................................... 16 MemSQL ................................................................................................................................ 18 ParStream ............................................................................................................................. 19 Tidemark ............................................................................................................................... 20 VoltDB ................................................................................................................................... 21 Analytics for Sales, Marketing, and Social Media ..................................................................... 22 BloomReach .......................................................................................................................... 23 NGDATA ................................................................................................................................ 24 Ninja Metrics ......................................................................................................................... 25 PlaceIQ .................................................................................................................................. 27 Pursway ................................................................................................................................. 28 SumAll ................................................................................................................................... 29 Teikametrics .......................................................................................................................... 30 Billion-Dollar Baby ..................................................................................................................... 31 Cloudera ................................................................................................................................ 31 Big Data for Security ................................................................................................................. 33 Feedzai .................................................................................................................................. 33 Fortscale ................................................................................................................................ 35 Vorstack ................................................................................................................................ 36 The NoSQL Crowd ..................................................................................................................... 37 Aerospike ............................................................................................................................... 37 Couchbase ............................................................................................................................. 39 DataStax ................................................................................................................................ 40 ScaleArc ................................................................................................................................. 41 Splice Machine ...................................................................................................................... 43 Hadoop Darlings ........................................................................................................................ 44 Altiscale ................................................................................................................................. 44 Continuuity ............................................................................................................................ 45 Hortonworks ......................................................................................................................... 47 MapR Technologies ............................................................................................................... 49 Qubole ................................................................................................................................... 50 Platfora ................................................................................................................................. 51 Xplenty .................................................................................................................................. 52 Making Big Data Easy ................................................................................................................ 53 Alpine Data Labs ................................................................................................................... 53 import.io ................................................................................................................................ 55 Predixion Software ................................................................................................................ 56 SiSense ................................................................................................................................... 57 Focusing on Performance Management .................................................................................. 59 CloudPhysics .......................................................................................................................... 59 Big Data 50 ©2014 Startup50.com Concurrent ............................................................................................................................. 60 Search, Warehousing, and “People Analytics” ......................................................................... 62 LucidWorks ............................................................................................................................ 62 MammothDB ......................................................................................................................... 63 VoloMetrix............................................................................................................................. 64 Data Connections and Preparation ........................................................................................... 66 Datameer .............................................................................................................................. 66 Paxata ................................................................................................................................... 67 Tamr ...................................................................................................................................... 68 Trifacta .................................................................................................................................. 69 Big Data 50 ©2014 Startup50.com Big Data Startup Landscape – Overview The Big Data space is heating up – to the point that startup Cloudera has raked in more than $1 billion in VC funding. That’s not a typo; that’s 1 billion with a “b.” The Cloudera