Bad News from Cloudera & MapR: Is 2019 The Year Of Demise For Big Data

Last few weeks have brought in a string of bad news in the big data space. Publicly listed big data firm Cloudera revealed its CEO Tom Reilly is stepping down. The company lowered its 2020 guidance, followed by its share plunging almost 40%. All this comes just five months after Cloudera merged with its rival Hortonworks, in a bid to consolidate industry, increase combined sales and cut down costs that they use to compete with each other. What the merger was expected to do? In fact, the $5.2 billion merger was expected to bolster its data management portfolio and improve competitiveness in the multi-cloud market, currently led by  AWS, Microsoft and Google. By pooling in their database offerings, the acquisition could help the two biggest Hadoop vendors take on cloud computing giant AWS. As the flag bearers of the Hadoop ecosystem struggle to capture real market value, another Google-backed big data startup MapR that proved to be disruptive in the big data space is now facin