Bringing some enterprise rigor to the wild world of big data, Hewlett-Packard has issued a package that will allow organizations to harness HP’s Vertica analytical database engine to investigate reams of unstructured data residing in Hadoop systems.

“We’re marrying the best of both worlds,” said Jeff Healey, director of product marketing for HP’s big data platform products. “We’re bringing a proven SQL engine into the Hadoop infrastructure. You can view and explore Hadoop data without learning a whole bunch of new skills.”

The HP Vertica for SQL on Hadoop package can work with the Hortonworks, MapR and Cloudera Hadoop distributions and with basic Apache Hadoop systems that may have been developed in house.

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