There are many instances today where the use of traditional databases causes inefficiency and increased workloads. If some of those traditional systems were Hadoop databases instead, users would be a ...

While Hadoop has been making its way into more venues of utilization, some representatives at this year’s Hadoop Summit in Dublin, Ireland, have been finding new paths forward by going back to examine ...

Through its developerWorks site, IBM is helping spread the word about an academic-based project that provides free videos on numerous data analytics concepts, such as the recently published ...

At last, big-data fans, we've got some word of the seemingly-missing-but-not-forgotten Windows Server implementation of Hadoop promised by Microsoft and Hortonworks. I'd started wondering whether ...

Hortonworks has partnered with Microsoft to provide the first Hadoop implementation geared specifically toward Windows Server. Called the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), it "enables organizations to ...

Cloudera is packaging its distribution of the open-source Hadoop software with developer tools, technical support, training programs, and sales and marketing resources to make it easier for ...

With the massive amount of data proliferating the Web, companies such as Google and many others are building new technologies to sort it all. Core to that movement is something called MapReduce, a ...

As part of an effort to ensure compatibility across multiple distributions of Hadoop, ODPi, a non-profit consortium led by many application providers, today released the ODPi Runtime Specification and ...

What are some of the cool things in the 2.0 release of Hadoop? To start, how about a revamped MapReduce? And what would you think of a high availability (HA) implementation of the Hadoop Distributed ...

BMC's Control-M software automation system will help speed up Hadoop implementation and can also be integrated with Hadoop subcomponents Hot on the heels of Hortonworks acquiring a security vendor to ...