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 ...

Hortonworks, a leading contributor to Apache Hadoop, has released Hortonworks Sandbox, a learning environment and on-ramp for anyone interested in learning, evaluating or using Apache Hadoop in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The three leaders of the relational database market are responding to the sudden mania for the data processing technology Hadoop in three very different ways. While startups and established data ...

RainStor recently released RainStor Database 5.5 that is designed to both increase Big Data security and to simplify searching across massive databases. What RainStor has to say about this release ...

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 ...

The three leaders of the relational database market are responding to the sudden mania for the data processing technology Hadoop in three very different ways. While startups and established data ...