Employing Hadoop’s distributed file system (HDFS) as data storage, Hive inherits all of Hadoop’s fault tolerance, scalability, and adeptness with huge data sets.

If you haven’t heard of Flink until now, get ready for the deluge. As one of a stream of Apache incubator-to-top-level projects turned commercial effort, the data processing engine’s promise is to ...

Today, Samsung Next, the venture capital arm of Samsung Electronics, announced it is making a strategic investment in Seattle-based Expanso, a startup looking to power distributed data processing ...

Even when designing a Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA), developers must consider resource location, especially when mobile apps are part of a distributed system. Distributing the data and ...

With strong share price gains and significant hedge fund interest, Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL) secures a spot on our list ...

AWS recently announced a distributed map for Step Functions, a solution for large-scale parallel data processing. Optimized for S3, the new feature of the AWS orchestration service targets ...

Apache Flink, a distributed in-memory data processing framework project born out of Germany, this week graduated the Apache Incubator stage and became a Top-Level Project at the open source software ...

SkySQL, the cloud database based on the well-known MariaDB open source RDBMS, adds distributed database capabilities for write-intensive applications scalability and high availability.

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TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, MySQL-compatible distributed database that handles hybrid transactional and analytical processing (HTAP) workloads.