The popular big data program Apache's Hadoop is difficult to use. Indeed, Datanami, an important big data publication, recently found that "the Hadoop dream of unifying data and compute in a ...

Apache Hadoop’s position as the leading light in big data is coming under threat from competing technologies such as Apache Spark, but the Linux Foundation believes there’s plenty of life left in the ...

Have you ever wondered how Google, Facebook and other Internet giants process their massive workloads? Billions of requests are served every day by the biggest players on the Internet, resulting in ...

Microsoft is making available a preview version of its Azure HDInsight (Hadoop on Azure) service running on Linux as of February 18. Like its Windows counterpart, the HDInsight on Linux service is ...

DataStax, which offers products and services based on the open source NoSQL database Apache Cassandra, has launched DataStax Enterprise (DSE) 2.1, with increased capabilities for running a Hadoop ...