Fast decision-making depends on real-time data movement that allows businesses to gather data from multiple locations into Hadoop as well as conventional data warehouses. Unfortunately, traditional ...

The Hadoop platform has tools that can extract the data from the source systems, whether they are log files, machine data or online databases and load them to Hadoop in record time. It is possible to ...

In addition, when used together with Apache Sqoop, businesses can provision information and then leverage Tungsten Replicator to replicate transactions incrementally in real-time, providing continuous ...

Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. But what does it do, and why do you need all its strangely-named friends, such as Oozie, Zookeeper and Flume?

One is Flume, which can assist in the loading of data into Hadoop. Another new addition is Oozie, which is a workflow management software.

One phrase in particular has become popular for describing the massing of data into Hadoop, the "Data Lake", and indeed, this term has been adopted by Pivotal for their enterprise big data strategy.

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 ...

Enterprises benefit from extending their data warehouse architectures to handle big data workloads, Teradata says.

In contrast, Hadoop moves the analytic computation to where the data resides, eliminating the need for a cental, giant number-crunching machine. Yahoo was an early leading contributor to Hadoop.