{"id":647772,"date":"2013-03-20T12:33:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T16:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=622319"},"modified":"2013-03-20T12:33:29","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T16:33:29","slug":"concurrent-gets-4m-for-higher-level-hadoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/647772","title":{"rendered":"Concurrent gets $4M for higher-level Hadoop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Concurrent<\/a>, proprietor of the open-source Cascading framework<\/a> for developing big data workflows, has closed $4 million Series A investment round from True Ventures \u00a0(see disclosure)<\/em>\u00a0and Rembrandt Partners. Cascading has been around for a few years, actually, but Concurrent only raised seed funding in 2011<\/a> and has been riding the wave of interest in making big data easier to do.<\/p>\n

In practice, Cascading is generally used as a higher-level method than MapReduce for writing Hadoop jobs, although it’s technically a framework that could support any number of distributed-processing frameworks. It’s used by a number of notable users<\/a>, including Etsy, Airbnb and Climate Corporation. In February, the Cascading project expanded its scope to address the growing SQL-on-Hadoop trend with a project called Lingual.<\/p>\n

Software veteran Gary Nakamura is taking on the role of Concurrent CEO, replacing Cascading creator Chris Wenzel, who’ll stay on as the company’s CTO.<\/p>\n

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Disclosure<\/strong>: Concurrent is backed by True Ventures, a venture capital firm that is an investor in the parent company of this blog, Giga Omni Media. Om Malik, the founder of Giga Omni Media, is also a venture partner at True.<\/em><\/p>\n

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