Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. But what does it do, and why do you need all its strangely-named friends, such as Oozie, Zookeeper and Flume?

Hadoop: How it became big data's lynchpin, and where it's going next Doug Cutting, creator of the distributed computing platform Hadoop, ...

Here at the annual Apache Big Data show in Miami, Florida, a pair of Hadoop project committers from Cloudera shared details on how the changes will impact YARN and HDFS. The biggest change coming to ...

So, Microsoft launched the Hadoop on Windows Azure service to make it possible to distribute the load and speed up big data computations. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

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 ...

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.

Hadoop, big data, and the elephant in the room. Sandy Steier, 1010data. May 6, 2014 11:00 PM Image Credit ... In this new Hadoop world, data still needs to be moved from place to place.

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.

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 ...

Mortar Data, founded in 2010, creates a private, on-demand Hadoop cluster for clients' big data projects and creates "optimized jobs for execution" using Pig and Python. Amazon's S3 cloud storage ...