OpenLogic Announces 2011 Open Source Adoption Trending Report

  

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Top 3 Gainers are HBase, Node.js and nginx

BROOMFIELD CO January 4, 2012 - OpenLogic, Inc., provider of enterprise open source solutions for the cloud and the data center, today announced its 2011 trending report for open source in three key categories, including web and application servers; application frameworks; and databases and big data.

To develop its report, OpenLogic analyzed popular as well as up-and-coming open source projects that are used as core infrastructure in enterprise applications in order to evaluate whether enterprise adoption was trending up, staying level or trending down. For each open source project, OpenLogic analyzed eight metrics that include public data, as well as aggregated data from OpenLogic's tools and customer base of over 250 enterprises worldwide.

Top 5 Gainers

The following projects showed the biggest gains in 2011 over 2010:
1. HBase, a distributed, column-oriented database system built on top of Hadoop.
2. Node.js, a platform for writing highly scalable Internet applications in Javascript.
3. nginx, a high concurrency, low memory usage web server and reverse proxy.
4. Hadoop, a framework for distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers.
5. Rails, a highly scalable web application framework.

OpenLogic also evaluated each category and categorized projects as "trending up" (up across most or all metrics), "trending level" (up and down on a roughly equal number of metrics), or "trending down" (down across all or most metrics).

The Application Server/Web Server category:

The Frameworks category:

The databases and big data category:

Overall Ranking of the Selected 16 Open Source Projects By Percentage Growth:

1. HBase
2. Node.js
3. nginx
4. Hadoop
5. Rails
6. MongoDB
7. Tomcat
8. MySQL
9. Apache
10. Spring
11. PostgreSQL(tie)
Grails (tie) 
12. Struts
13. JBoss
14. GlassFish
15. CouchDB

"OpenLogic has a 360 degree view of how open source is being deployed in the enterprise and in the cloud," said Kim Weins, senior vice president of marketing at OpenLogic. "The projects that allow organizations to efficiently scale their operations and manage Big Data are by far outpacing the growth of other open source projects. We expect to see many of these up and coming projects continue to challenge the traditional open source leaders over the coming year."

Methodology

The OpenLogic report ranked year over year (January 2010 through November 2010 and January 2011 through November 2011) data based on growth (or loss) on eight metrics:

Webinar

OpenLogic will examine the results of their 2011 trending report in an upcoming webinar: "5 Must-Watch Trends for Open Source in the Enterprise"
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
2:00-3:00pm ET (11:00am-12:00pm PT)
To register, please visit: http://openlogic.com/news/events.php