Most enterprise Hadoop deployments have so far been custom built by internal IT engineers -- companies had to buy the hardware, license the software and integrate it on their own, Kobielus noted.
Kobielus said the growing popularity of the open-source Apache Hadoop framework should in time help to further increase the number of packaged big data options available to IT managers.
Menninger said Oracle's unexpected decision to use the Cloudera implementation of Hadoop could prove beneficial to corporate users -- and Oracle. When Oracle first announced the appliance, it was expected to run an Oracle distribution of Hadoop, he said.
The selection of an established implementation means that the vendor won't have to "fight to establish another distribution," Menninger added. "If Oracle had created its own distribution, it would have given the competitors a potential weakness to exploit."
Jackson is a reporter for the IDG News Service. Chris Kanaracus of the IDG News Service contributed to this story.
This version of this story was originally published in Computerworld's print edition. It was adapted from
an article that appeared earlier on Computerworld.com.
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