As a poster child for big data, Hadoop is continually brought out as the reference architecture for big data analytics. But what exactly is Hadoop and what are the key points of Hadoop storage ...

Hadoop has forever changed the economics and dynamics of large-scale computing, and its use among enterprises looking to augment their traditional data warehouses continues to grow. During the first ...

At the center of the new big data movement is the Hadoop framework, which provides an efficient file system and related ecosystem of solutions to store and analyze big datasets. The Hadoop ecosystem ...

Code submitted this week for inclusion in the Hadoop stack will help speed the spread of the distributed big-data platform, according to Hortonworks co-founder Arun Murthy. The submission of the ...

Jeff Hammerbacher says that Facebook tried them all. And none of them did what the web giant needed them to do. Hammerbacher is the Harvard-trained mathematician Facebook hired in 2006. His job was to ...

It's hard to believe, but it's true. The Apache Hadoop project, the open source implementation of Google's File System (GFS) and MapReduce execution engine, turned 10 this week. The technology, ...

Today RainStor announced that it is releasing a version of its database that runs natively on Apache Hadoop called RainStor Big Data Analytics on Hadoop. This will enable users to query data stored in ...

If you follow the developments of Apache Hadoop, you know that industry experts are claiming that it will only be used for 10 percent of data. However, according to a recent 2014 State of Database ...

Actian Corp. has added support for Apache Spark to its hybrid data management, analytics and integration platform. Actian Vector in Hadoop, known as VectorH, uses vector processing and multi-level ...