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Matt Pfiel, Co-Founder and VP of Customer Solutions at Datastax, discussed the company's partnership with Splunk, their recent progress, and his take on Big Data trends with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelley, live from Splunk .conf 2013

Pfiel explained that Datastax had a formal partnership with Splunk. "We've got a number of customers that are using something called Cassandra Connect with Splunk," a solution offering them a complete view of the world.

As far as Datastax developments are concerned, "on the product side, we just continue to expand the Cassandra community," the company now having thousands of deployments, according to Pfiel. The enterprise solution combining Cassandra and Hadoop is also a primary interest, the latest release adding more security features.

When it comes to Big Data, there are two different types of workloads, Pfiel explained, the online and offline workloads. "We play in that online place. We are the system used to run the business, where results are measured in milliseconds," not minutes or hours. Asked about interesting applications ran on top of Cassandra, Pfiel mentioned Intuit who are running their entire data infrastructure for doing their entire tax load on top of Cassandra.

Cassandra, meeting the needs of the Big Data age


"We're in this data age," Pfiel said, which is defined by Gartner's 3 Vs: Volume, Variety and Velocity. One can overcome the requirements, but that usually requires complexity, and complexity leads to downtime. "From the ground up, Cassandra is built to meet the needs" of Big Data, but focuses on uptime.

Asked what differentiates Cassandra on the NoSQL market where it competes with MongoDB and others, Pfiel said it was the results in mission-critical environments. "We've got a reputation to stay up and running no matter out. We're really known to keep uptime and performance," no matter the challenges of the enterprise.

"One of the things we tell people just getting involved in the Big Data space, it's a bit of a learning curve. You're unlearning restrictions," Pfiel stated. Having unlimited access to data, no matter what shape or form it is, benefits the end customer.

The next billion-dollar company will emerge from the Big Data world


Asked if there was room for a new billion dollar software company in the current space, Pfiel said, "absolutely. There is going to be a collection of billion dollar companies coming out of the Big Data world." Vellante also asked if there would be a Red Hat of Big Data. Pfiel said there might be a couple, but would remain independent only for some part of their journey.

A lot of the players in the Hadoop and NoSQL space are open source and "the guys with money" won't let them all sit on the sidelines for long.

Commenting on the Splunk .conf experience, Pfiel said, "We're just really grateful to be here, and seeing this conference grow so much is a big plus for the Big Data community. "

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