Databricks Inc., the primary commercial steward behind the popular open source Apache Spark data processing framework for Big Data analytics, published a new report indicating the technology is still ...

On and off, over the years, I have followed and written about the SQL-on-Hadoop saga. The adventure started with Apache Hive, which originally provided a SQL layer on top of MapReduce, bringing new ...

Big Data analytics are becoming central to the success of all types of businesses. Analytics is a vital tool in managing the complex task of serving the customer while staying ahead of the competition ...

While Hadoop can store and access vast amounts of detailed data at lower costs, businesses are still encountering high-performance demands and they face a bevy of business questions. Emerging ...

Apache Ignite is an open source in-memory data fabric which provides a wide variety of computing solutions including an in-memory data grid, compute grid, streaming, as well as acceleration solutions ...

After an absence of about a year, and a stint as Research Director at the now defunct Gigaom Research, I've returned to ZDNet to cover Big Data. The year went by pretty quickly, but a number of things ...