I also like the reference to Apache Hadoop, since every big data solution I know of uses this framework. Hadoop is usually key to big data, but other important capabilities in this framework ...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is bringing Hadoop to the Windows Azure cloud. The popular big-data analytics framework is now available on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. On the one hand, it's great to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Actian is describing the newly announced Hadoop Edition of its analytics software as the first platform with full SQL support designed to run entirely natively on the distributed big-data framework.

Hadoop is the open source software framework at the heart of much of the Big Data and analytics revolution. It provides solutions for enterprise data. News.

Hive can open up Hadoop systems to traditional data analysts and traditional Business Intelligence tools. But as a revolutionary technology, Hadoop and big data are more about breaking with existing ...

Data is continuing to grow inside of organizations. Enterprise content management system, business intelligence and various other forms of structured and unstructured data have left leaders ...

The results from the second annual Syncsort Hadoop survey are in and the 250 high-level respondents predict some surprising future trends of big data.

The Hadoop programming framework may be synonymous with the “big data” movement but it’s not the only tool companies need to derive insights from massive stores of unstructured information ...