Back in the 1800s John Godfrey Saxe wrote a famous poem about six blind men trying to discover what an elephant is by touching a part and describing it. Saxe observes that, “each was partly in the ...

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If data is the oil of the 21st century, then those who have a knowledge of Hadoop are bound to strike it big. Not only does this open source software library store massive data sets with ease, it also ...

The computational capability of modern supercomputers, matched with the data handling abilities of the Hadoop framework, when done efficiently, creates a best of both worlds opportunity. This pairing ...

Although Cisco Sys tems Inc. is best known for selling proprietary data center switches, it also plays an active role in the open-source ecosystem, ranking as the sixth most prolific contributor to ...

The market for Hadoop and related products is one of the most active in all of enterprise software. I’ve developed a simple framework that can help quickly explain the differences in the way Hadoop ...

One question I get asked a lot by my clients is: Should we go for Hadoop or Spark as our big data framework? Spark has overtaken Hadoop as the most active open source Big Data project. While they are ...

LinkedIn on Thursday will announce a new open source project that aims to provide native support for running TensorFlow jobs on Hadoop. TensorFlow is the Google-built open-source machine learning ...

Big data is a concept that’s been as widely hyped as cloud computing, and perhaps just as misunderstood in regards to its capabilities and limitations. One of the aspects of big data that is not ...