Splice Machine says the launch this week of its public beta opens up the Hadoop stack for the first time to a full-featured SQL database, capable of running transactions and analytics ...

Cloudera’s Collins had a different take, saying that it was not so much a question of whether Spark threatens Hadoop’s dominance, but whether or not an alternative stack that also contains ...

Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) vendor Altiscale is moving up the stack with a new service called Altiscale Insight Cloud. The offering sits atop Altiscale Data Cloud, the company's existing service ...

The IT industry loves its stacks. First there was the LAMP stack, then the Hadoop stack became popular. Over the past five years, something called the Modern Data Stack has taken hold in our ...

Amazingly, Hadoop has been redefined in the space of a year. Let's take a look at all the salient parts of this roiling ecosystem and what they mean The biggest thing you need to know about Hadoop ...

Time and again, commercial Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies has demonstrated the value of the MapR-FS file system that underpins its Hadoop stack and differentiates it, more than any other feature ...

Hadoop also needs to interact with traditional database management systems and even NoSQL-type database. HBase is making big inroads into the Hadoop stack, Adrian said, but even NoSQL databases, such ...

The enterprises that deploy more than one Hadoop stack (a common occurrence) will need to juggle the conflicting security approaches and almost certainly leave holes.

Cloudera Enterprise is a pre-integrated stack of Hadoop software and associated support available on a subscription basis. “You take a look at how you operationalize any platform.

In time, the Hadoop stack – and we are using this term in the broadest sense, not literally just MapReduce running atop the Hadoop Distributed File System – will absorb all kinds of workloads, and ...

These projects go by an odd assortment of names: Pig, Hive, Flume, Zookeeper, but they’re often short-changed when we talk about Hadoop. I’ve seen them referred to as the “Hadoop stack,” though some ...