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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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The new Hadoop is nothing less than the Apache Foundation’s attempt to create a whole new general framework for the way big data can be stored, mined, and processed. It ought to not only further ...

Last year we all knew what Big Data in the enterprise meant. It meant Hadoop and it was riding the crest of a huge adoption wave. Big Data is still riding that wave, but it’s not clear Hadoop is ...

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 ...