Autonomy is one of a number of data-centered software companies that have bridged their offerings to Hadoop. Teradata with Hadoop distributor Hortonworks to bridge Hadoop with its own data warehouse software. In a similar move, Oracle with Cloudera, another Hadoop distributor.

HP Autonomy declined to reveal pricing or availability of the IDOL Hadoop plug-in.

Autonomy also announced on Monday that it has released a tool to analyze how users surf around a company's website, called Autonomy Optimost Clickstream Analytics. The software summarizes user visits, as well as online purchases and other pertinent information.

The IDG News Service