Hadoop or NoSQL? It's not "either-or". It's both. It's Hadoop and NoSQL. Hadoop is the be-all and end-all platform for big data analytics. NoSQL is the go-to database technology for enterprise web, ...

Document databases are an integral part of the application stack, but they often have scalability issues and they tend to end up off to the side of the Hadoop systems that are increasingly being used ...

A new report from Forrester predicts the big data market growing at nearly 13% rate over the next five years, with “non-relational” platforms like Hadoop and NoSQL segments growing nearly twice as ...

Hadoop and NoSQL databases share some similarities, but the platforms typically live within different levels of the big data spectrum. Now MapR Technologies is working to break those barriers down by ...

Striking a strategic alliance, MapR Technologies Inc. and MongoDB Inc. bring their respective camps of the analytics movement closer together as growing enterprise adoption makes the need for ...

In this special guest feature, Matt Asay from 10gen writes that the move to Big Data means plenty of IT jobs for people with the right skills. The rise of Big Data has pushed companies to desperately ...

NoSQL and Hadoop—two foundations of the emerging agile data architecture—have been on the scene for several years now, and, industry observers say, adoption continues to accelerate—especially within ...

Live from O’Reilly Strata Conference and Hadoop World: MapR M7 brings enterprise-grade reliability and performance to HBase, adding integrated snapshots, mirroring, instant recovery, and delivering ...

diginomica is largely a business focused technology property. We are less concerned with the minutiae of the technology and lean more towards what it delivers. But in recent weeks, we've been spending ...

Breaking down data silos is a challenge enterprises have been trying to overcome for years. Hadapt, a Cambridge, Mass.-based start-up that grew out of work by co-founder Dr. Daniel Abadi at Yale, has ...

As the big data community gores itself over real-time vs. batch, Basho CTO Dave McCrory (@mccrory) offers an easy way to settle the question: Let gravity decide. Or data gravity, to be more precise.

The demand for job skills related to data processing — NoSQL, Apache Hadoop, Python, and a smattering of other such skills — has hit all-time highs, according to statistics collected by tech job site ...