MicroStrategy Inc.’s has launched a major upgrade to its namesake business intelligence platform that promises to help organizations make more out of the vast troves of data they’re storing in Had ...

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 ...

Singer says Jethro 3.0 automates such tasks by creating cubes based on actual user queries, fully indexing all table columns and managing an intelligent query result cache.

Rackspace made some noise yesterday at the Strata + Hadoop World conference currently taking place in New York’s Jacob Javits Center, which could have a major impact in the field of big data ...

Hadoop Summit San Jose has come to an end. This year, I was there to cover the news, and to present a breakout session. My talk focused on fragmentation in the industry: the Big Data ecosystem has ...

Apache Spark is a project designed to accelerate Hadoop and other big data applications through the use of an in-memory, clustered data engine. The Apache Foundation describes the Spark project ...

Arun Murthy, one of Hortonworks’ co-founders, had identified this as a problem as far back as 2006, Bonaci says. But it wasn’t until 2012 that the Hadoop community would move strongly to separate ...

Rackspace on Monday became the latest vendor to offer Hadoop-as-a-service through Hortonworks, positioning it as a way for customers to take advantage of the big data technology on a pay-as-you-go ...