If you're looking for an alternative vendor: We've started a new company (called Stackable) to build a distribution for all these open source "data" tools (e.g. Apache Kafka, Apache NiFi, Apache Spark, ...).
I'm a committer for Apache HBase, Apache Hive myself and I've been in this space for 13 years now. Yes, the hype is over but there are tons of companies using this stuff in production and tons of companies choosing it for new projects.
We're trying to tackle the biggest pain points our customers had: Lack of flexibility (i.e. locked into specific versions for ages), CDH/HDP not built on Infrastructure as Code principles, Security is hard to do, ...
The three-sentence (buzzword heavy) technical summary: Our distro uses the Kubernetes control plane but we've developed a custom Kubelet that runs software using systemd as its backend as well as a bunch of operators (all in Rust...). This allows us to leverage the best of both worlds and also allows hybrid scenarios (part in containers, part on "bare metal"). We've replaced Ranger/Sentry with OpenPolicyAgent.
I'm a committer for Apache HBase, Apache Hive myself and I've been in this space for 13 years now. Yes, the hype is over but there are tons of companies using this stuff in production and tons of companies choosing it for new projects.
We're trying to tackle the biggest pain points our customers had: Lack of flexibility (i.e. locked into specific versions for ages), CDH/HDP not built on Infrastructure as Code principles, Security is hard to do, ...
The three-sentence (buzzword heavy) technical summary: Our distro uses the Kubernetes control plane but we've developed a custom Kubelet that runs software using systemd as its backend as well as a bunch of operators (all in Rust...). This allows us to leverage the best of both worlds and also allows hybrid scenarios (part in containers, part on "bare metal"). We've replaced Ranger/Sentry with OpenPolicyAgent.
If anyone's interested feel free to reach out to me (E-Mail in profile / https://www.stackable.de/en ).