Data analytics, long the obscure pursuit of analysts and quants toiling in the depths of enterprises, has emerged as the must-have strategy of organizations across the globe. Competitive edge not only ...

Hadoop has become a central tool for Big Data applications. RainStor has added SQL access, better compression and the ability to reduce the number of systems in a Hadoop cluster to improve ...

The USPTO awarded search giant Google a software method patent that covers the principle of distributed MapReduce, a strategy for parallel processing that is used by the search giant.

Hadoop (then called Nutch) was created in 2004 by Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella as a Java-based implementation of the Google File system and MapReduce compute framework. The product came about to ...

While Hadoop and its innumerable satellite projects make for a confusing market, there's more healthy unity there than may be obvious Hadoop remains the poster child for big data, yet other big ...

Anyone who uses Hadoop on a regular basis knows that reliability of complex jobs is a mystery. The odds of a Hadoop job running according to plan every time are not 90 percent, or even 80 percent ...

Hadoop’s ecosystem includes a variety of tools and frameworks that enhance its capabilities, making it a comprehensive platform for data processing. Apache Hive : Hive provides a SQL-like ...

For Hadoop, these approaches are not new. EMC has offered its own support of HDFS emulation for its Isilon scale-out file storage for several years. The difference with 3.0 is that the goals of ...

A few weeks ago, two giants of the big data Hadoop era, Cloudera and Hortonworks, announced they would be merging. The announcement claimed it would be a “merger of equals.” It is fascinating ...

Facebook’s business analysts push the business in a variety of ways.They rely heavily on Hive, which enables them to use Hadoop with standard business intelligence tools, as well as Facebook’s ...