EMC to Hadoop competition: “See ya, wouldn’t wanna be ya.”:

EMC Greenplum rolled out a new Hadoop distribution that fuses the popular big data platform with its flagship MPP database technology. Co-founder Scott Yara thinks the company’s huge investment puts it in the catbird seat among Hadoop vendors.

Greenplum HAWQ: yet another Hadoop distribution, this time Greenplum RDBMS tied to HDFS.