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 was named after a toy elephant, sounds like a Dr. Seuss character, and it's the hottest thing in big-data technology. It's a software framework that makes short work of a tall task—managing ...

With the new release of its Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has radically expanded the set of supporting tools for the data processing framework. “What we saw was that most organizations deploy quite a ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Business, science and academic researchers have access to an unprecedented array of data to mine and discover significant trends, from social network chatter to consumer buying ...

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 ...