The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is considered a core component of Hadoop, but it’s not an essential one. Lately, IBM has been talking up the benefits of hooking Hadoop up to the General ...

Among the companies trying to blend the old “big data” world and the new one in AI/ML is software-defined storage company, Quobyte, which today described a new driver they’ve developed for Hadoop that ...

To me, Hadoop 2.0 is an Enterprise maturity turning point for Hadoop, and thus for Big Data: HDFS loses its single-point-of-failure through a secondary standby "name node." This is good.

Developing a strategy for the post-Hadoop era – and freeing up time and resources to focus on emerging data challenges.

With the Hadoop Summit taking place this week in San Jose, California, vendors supporting the open-source data-analysis platform are rushing new products to market.

Here's a look at different ways to query Hadoop via SQL, some of which are part of the latest edition of MapR's Hadoop distribution SQL: old and busted. Hadoop: new hotness. That’s the ...

The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) has emerged as a top contender for building a data lake. The scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of Hadoop make it a good place to land data ...

Quobyte's new native driver for Hadoop addresses the limitations of the Hadoop Distributed File System's (HDFS) high-capacity design within the enterprise.

“We are targeting both of them squarely,” said HPE GreenLake Cloud Solutions Group Senior Vice President Vishal Lall. “If you are an HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) customer with a ...