In today's internet-driven world, more and more data is hitting big businesses ... in Dr. Seuss’s classic children’s book Horton Hears a Who. Hadoop, you see, has a long history with pachyderms.

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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 ...

A while ago, I posted What is "Big Data ... dynamic sets of data gives me a headache. There are many different papers and articles that address the question "what is hadoop?" ...

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 promise of big data is enormous ... companies may get themselves into a bit of a bind.” “Hadoop and similar NoSQL data stores enable any organization—large or small—to collect ...

Here are the nine biggest myths about big data and Hadoop that you should not believe. Recently, a presales engineer at one of my company’s partners mentioned how much trouble his firm had ...

The new Hadoop is nothing less than the Apache Foundation’s attempt to create a whole new general framework for the way big data can be stored, mined, and processed. It ought to not only further ...

Recent funding in Hadoop vendors underscores how venture capitalists see big bucks in managing Big Data. Last month, Hadoop providers Cloudera Inc., Hortonworks Inc. and Platfora Inc. received a ...