Develop analytics applications by using open source Apache Hadoop and BigInsights™ APIs without having to manage the platform. The service is built on single tenant bare metal nodes and managed and scaled for you by the Big Data experts at IBM®.

This service provides 100% open source Apache Hadoop through the IBM Open Platform. It is updated regularly to provide the best versions of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem components, including, among others, Ambari, YARN, Spark, Knox, HBase, Hive, and an encrypted HDFS.

Key components of the platform, including the infrastructure, are proactively monitored by a 24x7 cloud operations team. Critical security fixes, high severity patches, and defect resolutions are promptly applied on the cluster. Take advantage of high value Hadoop analytics features such as Big SQL, BigSheets, Text Analytics, Big R, and Machine Learning to gain insight faster.