When it comes to optimizing Hadoop performance, DevOps professionals and the administrators who manage distributed storage and processing systems might want to pull out a page or two from their high ...

In what appears to be a change in direction, Hortonworks has released a completely open source Hadoop distribution based on Apache Hadoop that will compete head-on with Cloudera’s CDH3. The new ...

Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. You'll hear it mentioned often, along with associated technologies such as Hive and Pig. But what does it do, and ...

Did you know that 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone? With such an overwhelming influx of information, businesses are constantly seeking efficient ways to manage and ...

Apache Software Foundation, which oversees the 150 or so open source projects under the famous Apache umbrella, this week announced Hadoop 2 – the latest version of the popular software framework for ...

NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwired - Oct 28, 2013) - MarkLogic Corporation today announced a significant update to its Connector for Hadoop that allows Hadoop applications direct access to data indexed and ...

Another win for Apache Hadoop. WANdisco acquired AltoStor, a Silicon Valley-based big data startup, for $3.6 million in cash and another $1.5 million in cash that will exchange hands once the deal ...

SAN RAMON, Calif., Jan. 15 — WANdisco, a leading provider of continuous-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data, announced today that it had contributed code to ...

Apache Spark is a project designed to accelerate Hadoop and other big data applications through the use of an in-memory, clustered data engine. The Apache Foundation describes the Spark project this ...

Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop are both popular, open-source data science tools offered by the Apache Software Foundation. Developed and supported by the community, they continue to grow in popularity ...