Hortonworks To Buy Onyara

(RTTNews) - Hortonworks, Inc. (HDP) said Tuesday that it has agreed to buy Onyara, Inc., the creator of and key contributor to Apache NiFi, a top-level open source project.

The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2015.

The acquisition will make it easy for customers to automate and secure data flows and to collect, conduct and curate real-time business insights and actions derived from data in motion. As a result of the acquisition, Hortonworks® is introducing Hortonworks DataFlow powered by Apache NiFi which is complementary to the industry's leading Open Enterprise Hadoop platform, Hortonworks Data Platform.

Apache NiFi was made available through the NSA Technology Transfer Program in the fall of 2014. Over the past eight years, Onyara's engineers were the key contributors to the U.S. government software project that evolved into Apache NiFi. Last month, NiFi became a Top-Level Project, signifying that its community and technology have been successfully governed under the Apache Software Foundation.