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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As the quantity of data collected by businesses continues to expand, new forms of data management ...

In part 1 of this series, we introduced the Hadoop Ecosystem. We will cover HDFS and MapReduce in this part. When a dataset outgrows the storage capacity of a single physical machine, it becomes ...

Next week opens one the largest Big Data events in the World: The O’Reilly Strata + Hadoop World Conference in New York City. The event is set to draw thousands of Big Data enthusiasts into the city ...

Big data isn't necessarily big and can be as much about the complexities of processing information as about volumes or data types. Personal genetic-profiling services such as 23andMe, which charges ...

Apache Hadoop, the open source project that arguably sparked the Big Data craze, turned 10 years old this week. The project's founder, Cloudera's Doug Cutting, waxed nostalgic as vendors in the ...

DataTorrent made its primary product, DataTorrent RTS, generally available today. The product is built on top of Hadoop 2.0 and allows companies to process massive amounts of big data in real time ...

Hadoop isn’t living up to its hype -- which means that both Hadoop vendors and their customers need to widen their array of big data technologies Hadoop makes all the big data noise. Too bad it’s not ...