Splunk Announces Availability of Hunk 

Splunk Inc. today announced the next evolution of big data analytics with the general availability of Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop. Hunk is a full-featured, integrated analytics platform for Hadoop that enables everyone in an organization to interactively explore, analyze and visualize historical data in Hadoop. Hunk is built on patent-pending virtual index technology that delivers powerful, self-serve analytics without the need for specialized programming skill sets, fixed schemas or costly integrations. Hunk also provides a rich developer environment, including an integrated web framework and software development kits (SDKs) for the world’s most popular development languages.

“Hunk is transforming the way organizations analyze their data in Hadoop by replacing drawn out development cycles with software that enables customers to deploy and deliver insights in hours instead of weeks or months,” said Sanjay Mehta, vice president of product marketing, Splunk. “Hadoop is an increasingly important technology and many organizations are storing vast amounts of data in Hadoop. However, this often creates a problem because the data sets become too big to move and more traditional approaches to analytics of raw data in Hadoop require brittle, fixed schemas. These are key reasons our customers consistently tell us about the cost, time and sheer difficulty of getting analytics out of their Hadoop clusters. With Hunk, we applied everything Splunk has learned from ten years of experience with more than 6,000 customers to this unique challenge.”

Rapid Analytics on Data in Hadoop Without Programming or Fixed Schemas

Hunk empowers everyone to quickly and easily derive actionable insights from raw, unstructured and polystructured data in Hadoop. Hunk works on Apache Hadoop and most major distributions, including those from Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM, MapR and Pivotal. Product features and highlights include:

• Full-featured, Integrated Analytics – explore, analyze and visualize data, create dashboards and share reports from one integrated platform that works with Apache Hadoop or the Hadoop distribution of your choice.
• Fast Deployment – simply point Hunk at your Hadoop cluster and start exploring data immediately.
• Interactive Search and Results Preview – interact with data, change perspectives on-the-fly and preview results as MapReduce jobs are running. Hunk’s schema on-the-fly delivers the flexibility to run queries on your Hadoop data without the need to know up front what questions or reports you will need to ask later.
• Drag-and-drop Analytics – enable powerful analytics for everyone with Splunk’s patent-pending Data Models and the Pivot Interface, first released in Splunk Enterprise 6.
• Rich Developer Environment for Hadoop – build big data applications on top of data in Hadoop using the languages and frameworks that developers already know and love. Hunk includes a standards-based web framework, documented REST API and software development kits for C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP and Ruby.