One of the great things about Hadoop is that it’s open source, which allows developers of all stripes to lash their code to the beast and give it a whirl. One of the big data software startups riding ...

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 ...

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 ...

IBM announced two new technologies to help enterprises tackle big data by making it simpler, faster and more economical to analyze massive amounts of data. At an event at its Almaden Research Center ...

Hadoop’s capabilities now make it possible to stream data into the cluster and analyze it in an interactive fashion—both in real time. Hadoop was purpose-built for cost-effective analysis of data sets ...

When Morgan tried to do some portfolio analysis 18 months ago it found that traditional databases and grid computing just wouldn’t scale to the very large volumes of data that its data scientists ...

Yale University researchers on Monday released an open-source parallel database that they say combines the data-crunching prowess of a relational database with the scalability of next-generation ...

Five Pitfalls to Avoid with Hadoop Conventional wisdom holds that as a batch-oriented platform, Hadoop is not well suited for running high-performance analytics applications. This week, however, ...

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 ...

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 ...