The creator of the Hadoop platform, Doug Cutting, is surprised Hadoop didn't have to battle it out with more competitors in its early years but thinks it's now too late for a competitor to take on the ...

In much the same way that Microsoft brought spreadsheet crunching to the business world through its now-ubiquitous Excel, the company is hoping to make a similar impact with big data analysis with its ...

Linux desktop software certainly has its hard-core fans, but the open-source program has always faced an uphill battle against a proprietary Microsoft Windows product that could pretty much do all the ...

Many organizations have found that it is relatively easy to download Hadoop software for free, and then load their data. What is far more difficult is to gain a competitive advantage from analyzing ...

The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. A reasonable estimate would put the technology on the “slope of ...

Growing digitalization in enterprises combined with the increasing adoption of smart payment technologies will fuel the growth of the global hadoop big data analytics market. Furthermore, the rising ...

Attunity Ltd. (NASDAQ CM: ATTU), a leading provider of Big Data management software solutions, announced the latest release of Attunity Visibility for Hadoop with enhanced technology to enable ...

Today, many companies still have most of their transactional data in relational database management systems such as Oracle which support various business-critical applications, from order entry to ...

The underlying programming model for MapReduce has been revamped and has changed quite a bit. Chuck Lam, the author of Hadoop in Action Benefits that keep getting better include high levels of ...

“Our ability to access and store information in Hadoop represents a significant step forward in our ability to support Big Data applications,” said Jon Pilkington, Vice President of Products for ...