As a poster child for big data, Hadoop is continually brought out as the reference architecture for big data analytics. But what exactly is Hadoop and what are the key points of Hadoop storage ...

Hadoop was named after a toy elephant, sounds like a Dr. Seuss character, and it's the hottest thing in big-data technology. It's a software framework that makes short work of a tall task—managing ...

Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive — and constantly growing — datasets.

Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. You'll hear it mentioned often, along with associated technologies such as Hive and Pig. But what does it do, and ...

It’s in the nature of hype bubbles to obscure important new paradigms behind a cloud of excitement and exaggerated claims. For example, the phrase “big data” has been so widely and poorly applied that ...

MarkLogic has underlined its intent to increase links between its NoSQL database and open-source big-data platform Hadoop. The firm's involvement with Hadoop goes back to November 2011 when it ...

The creator of the Hadoop platform, Doug Cutting, is surprised Hadoop didn't have to battle it out with more competitors in its early years but thinks it's now too late for a competitor to take on the ...

An increasing number of jumbo-size enterprise data sets-and all the technology needed to create, store, network, analyze, archive and retrieve them-are considered “big data.” This massive amount of ...

Big Data wasn’t designed with security in mind; in fact, security has never really been the focus of distributed sciences. With these mountains of data, informing businesses on critical buyer ...