Hortonworks

Hortonworks is listed here alongside Cloudera, the enterprise data company whose material the listing draws on. Cloudera supplies a hybrid platform for data and artificial intelligence that runs in public clouds, in company data centres and at the edge.

The company builds on open-source software and aims to let large organisations work with all of their data wherever it sits.

What Hortonworks offers

• Enterprise data cloud — a platform for handling any kind of data, from edge devices to AI.
• Open data lakehouse — a single store designed to give AI-ready data for real-time insight.
• Private AI — running AI workloads from development to inference without moving data away.
• Hybrid cloud experience — a consistent way of working between data centre and cloud.
• Governance and security — controls over data held inside or outside the platform.

Who it works with

Large enterprises. Customer examples named on the site come from banking, telecoms and healthcare.

Key facts

• Platform focus: hybrid data and AI
• Heritage: open-source community projects
• Events: runs an annual data and AI conference called EVOLVE