Hadoop, NoSQL and Big Data Job Trends by Alex Williams. SHARE. Apple is looking for a Hadoop administrator to help “redefine” adverting on mobile devices.

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 ...

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.

In essence, Hadoop is a really big file system that can run custom data processing jobs. Hadoop is often used for large-scale data mining and for building features like personalization and ...

As big data gathers momentum, there’s a big career opportunity building as well — for professionals with the right qualifications, that is. According to a report published last year by ...

There is a lot of debate in the big data space about tools and technology, and which ones are best. Is SQL better than NoSQL? Hadoop or Spark? What about R or Python? Of course no single tool or ...

There is some better news for Hadoop big-data technology in the Actian big-data study, conducted last month among 106 senior managers, which follows last month's lukewarm Gartner survey.

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) ...

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 ...

LucidWorks Big Data incorporates Hadoop and other open-source technologies such as Apache Lucene and Solr search, ... Version 2.0 offers new job monitoring and management features, ...