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 ...

It is quite natural for a ground breaking technology to arrive, be celebrated, enable new types of applications, and then to have expectations to grow beyond the technology’s ability to deliver. This ...

In the never-ending quest for a competitive advantage, organizations are turning to large repositories of corporate and external data to uncover trends, statistics, and other actionable information to ...

Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive — and constantly growing — datasets.

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 ...

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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 ...

Despite the deafening buzz around hyperscale and OpenStack, the Big Data ecosystem continued along on its path of growth this week, with Altiscale pulling the curtains back on a hosted platform built ...

Hadoop carries a lot of promise in the IT world for the way it has democratized access to massively parallel storage and computational power. But the level of hype that surrounds Hadoop is ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Hortonworks, a leading contributor to Apache Hadoop, has ...