By 2010, the Hadoop age was ushering in another exercise in stacks. Initially built on the combination of a distributed file system (HDFS) and a computing framework (MapReduce), the Hadoop stack grew ...

Apache Spark is the tech du jour in Big Data right now. Its ability to provide speedy performance against huge volumes of data has made such a splash that some people are even beginning to question t ...

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 simultaneously.

Everyone tends to focus on the “big” in Big Data, so much so that it’s easy to lose focus on the fact that Hadoop is really about data. Let’s regroup for a minute and really look at what’s going on ...

Each supports the part of the Hadoop stack that its vendor supports. If you’re not planning to get support from Cloudera or Hortonworks, then I’d say Ranger is the better offering at the moment.

The phrase “traditional Hadoop” was heard early and often at this week’s 2014 Hadoop Summit. While first-generation Hadoop technologies unlocked previously unseen potential in big data sets, it pales ...

Anticipating greater Apache Hadoop use in production environments, Cloudera has outfitted its commercial distribution of the data processing framework with additional configuration and management ...

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 ...

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Facebook uses Hadoop – a program named after a toy animal belonging to a developer’s child -- to mine and manipulate its data sets, and distribute its storage across switches and stacks. As Hadoop use ...

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 ...