Like many others, I continue to be impressed by the open-source Apache Hadoop software framework. With aplomb, it manages Big Data, images, documents, web logs–and tons of other unstructured and ...

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 ...

With the new release of its Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has radically expanded the set of supporting tools for the data processing framework. “What we saw was that most organizations deploy quite a ...

The model of distributed calculations, where a problem is broken down into distinct parts that can be solved individually on a computer and then recombined, has been around for decades.

A while ago, I posted What is "Big Data?". Here's a segment of that post. “Big Data” is a catch phrase that has been bubbling up from the high performance computing niche of the IT market.

Major Big Data and open source players Hortonworks and Red Hat Inc. today announced their engineering teams will collaborate to enhance Apache Hadoop storage options for enterprises. The companies ...

When it emerged from stealth in 2011, MapR was an outlier in the Hadoop community. At the time, Hadoop was defined largely by two projects adapted from Google research: MapReduce, which introduced ...