Two of the biggest players in big data -- Cloudera, a name-brand Hadoop vendor, and MongoDB, creator of the leading NoSQL database product -- have decided it's better to work together.
Billed in a press release as "the strategic partnership that will transform how organizations approach big data," the exact nature of the collaboration between the companies is still somewhat under wraps, but both outfits have spoken about the need to bring Hadoop and MongoDB closer in environments that demand it. In time, the collaboration might even become more than technical, but for now, both have hit upon an ideal starting point.