by Angela Guess
A new press release out of the company reports, “Cask (cask.co), the company that makes building and running big data solutions easy, today announced a public preview release of CDAP 4, the first unified integration platform for big data. Among a series of important enhancements, CDAP 4 introduces the Cask Market, a new ‘big data app store’ which enables developers, data scientists and citizen integrators to quickly build and deploy applications, data pipelines, plug-ins, and use case recipes on Hadoop and Spark with the click of a button. CDAP 4 Preview, along with updates to its self-service extensions, Cask Hydrator and Cask Tracker, is 100% open source and will be available for download on the Cask website on September 26, 2016.”
Jonathan Gray, founder and CEO at Cask, commented, “Nearly five years after our founding, and nine years after my initial foray into Hadoop, CDAP 4 represents everything the Cask team has learned working closely with our customers, our partners, and the community… We have always been focused on making big data easier, on letting users focus more on the fun and productive stuff and taking away as much of the pain and plumbing as possible. CDAP 4 delivers on the original vision we had of a big data app store, but our customers helped us figure out what that actually meant.”
The release goes on, “Previous versions of the Cask Data Application Platform (CDAP) initially focused on big data application management, driving efforts to standardize and pre-integrate Hadoop infrastructure, while providing metrics and logs as well as a complete testing and debugging environment for distributed applications. In subsequent releases, the need for data and process consistency across environments led to the design of a dedicated application and data integration solution, adding data ingestion, data pipelines as well as workflows and metadata to CDAP. CDAP 4 is a truly unified integration platform for big data, which enables enterprise IT to deliver a well-governed, self-service data environment for citizen integrators and line of business users, significantly accelerating time to value from Hadoop.”
Read more at Marketwired.
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