Data lakes are typically standalone objects, meaning, not designed with any particular requirements or upstream/downstream dependencies. In a way, they represent the rebirth of the original data ...

Hadoop’s MapReduce provided folks with a big step in capability. It’s hard to overstate exactly how critical this commodification of big data has been for the world.

Microsoft's new home-brewed Hadoop distribution lets Azure HDInsight keep on truckin' in a post-Hortonworks big data world. Written by Andrew Brust, Contributor Aug. 16, 2020 at 8:48 a.m. PT ...

You could have mere gigabytes of data and still benefit from Hadoop or other big data technologies, depending on the problem. You could also have big data that you don’t know about.

Sensing a growing interest in big data-style analysis, software provider Revolution Analytics has updated its flagship package of R statistical functions so it can be run with the Hadoop data ...

“The Hadoop Service Bundle unlocks more options for enterprise organisations that want to own their big data infrastructure,” said Weier O’Phinney.

Hadoop, an open source framework that enables distributed computing, has changed the way we deal with big data. Parallel processing with this set of tools can improve performance several times over.

You can add MarkLogic to the growing list of database vendors rushing to embrace the open-source Hadoop programming framework for large-scale data processing. MarkLogic 5, which became generally ...

Karmasphere has introduced Karmasphere Analyst, productivity software for data professionals working with massive data sets. 'Karmasphere is focused on providing software for developers and analysts ...

Starting Wednesday, Cohesity is making the Imanis Data technology for simplifying Hadoop File System big data workloads and NoSQL distributed databases available to its channel partners, Porat said.