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?" ...

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 ...

Getting people physically off the command line may be helpful ... It never should have been the poster child for Big Data. Hadoop (and Spark, for that matter) is technology that should be embedded in ...

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 Web GUI is a big advance over using the command line ... a so-called spreadsheet running on Hadoop, will let you play around with the data in the Hadoop cluster just as you would experiment ...

A few weeks ago, two giants of the big data Hadoop era, Cloudera and Hortonworks, announced they would be merging. The announcement claimed it would be a “merger of equals.” It is fascinating ...

If Hadoop is leaving your data lake project all wet, you may be a good candidate for an emerging architectural concept called the big data fabric. As industry experts explain, big data fabrics bring a ...

That is, not every organization needs petabytes of storage and ten thousand cores to find value in their data when using Hadoop and Spark. Indeed, the recent merger of the two “big” Hadoop companies ...

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 ...

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 ...