Shares of Hortonworks crashed over 25% after a huge miss on earnings and an exec departure

Shares of Hortonworks, which provides software to help companies analyze huge amounts of information, sunk over 25% to around $9.40 after-hours immediately following a big miss on its $4.

Here are the important numbers reported by Hortonworks:

• Revenue of $43.6 million versus Wall Street expectations of $45.26 million
• Loss per share of $0.72 versus Wall Street expectations of $0.70.

Plus, Hortonworks has also announced that company president Herb Cunitz will be departing, as $4. That report also indicates that Hortonworks is placing the blame for the earnings miss on certain deals that didn't close as expected.

Meanwhile, Talend, a provider of similar software and solutions as Hortonworks, held a successful IPO in late July, $4.