One company called Cloudera (which VentureBeat recently profiled) is commercializing the Java-based open source Hadoop implementation, but that may not be the most efficient.

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Like many other data-processing frameworks that live in or near Hadoop, Pinot is written in Java. It uses Apache Helix — also developed at LinkedIn — to perform cluster management.