Apple is looking for a Hadoop administrator to help "redefine" adverting on mobile devices. TripAdvisor needs a software engineer to build out its bigger than 25 terabyte database. Nokia seeks an eng ...

"Impala lets you get 10 or more times faster results for SQL queries over data that's in Hadoop" compared to using older query engines such as Hive running jobs on Hadoop MapReduce, Cutting said. ...

Fortunately, there are alternatives to Hadoop when it comes to big data projects. While not applicable to all situations, I've found that a Hadoop alternative can save time, money and slash risk.

The demand for job skills related to data processing — NoSQL, Apache Hadoop, Python, and a smattering of other such skills — has hit all-time highs, according to statistics collected by tech ...

Version 2.0 offers new job monitoring and management features, job and data placement controls, multi-tenancy support, central logging and custom central configuration capabilities, enhanced ...

Hadoop 2.0 introduces YARN (Yet Another Resource Negotiator) and demotes MapReduce to one of several tools for mining big data. The result is a more generalized and flexible framework for ...

If we do our job well, they'll get to 2,000 and 5,000 and 20,000. So if you go at that scale, ... More on Hadoop and big data. Cloudera raises $900 million, plots expansion; ...

Thanks to new data analytics services, such as those offered by Evolv and PeopleAnswers, data-driven measures are displacing the subjective approach. Evolv’s flagship software as a service (SaaS) ...

Here at the annual Apache Big Data show in Miami, Florida, a pair of Hadoop project committers from Cloudera shared details on how the changes will impact YARN and HDFS. The biggest change coming to ...

A number of the largest big data vendors, including IBM, Hortonworks and Pivotal, have banded together to specify a unified base platform for the open source Hadoop data processing software.