MapReduce was invented by Google in 2004, made into the Hadoop open source project by Yahoo! in 2007, and now is being used increasingly as a massively parallel data processing engine for Big Data.

Hive Talkin' Data-oriented .NET developers will probably be more comfortable with using the Hive query language, HiveQL (the syntax of which closely resembles ANSI SQL-92), than writing MapReduce jobs ...

Thank heaven for Hive, a data analysis and query front end for Hadoop that makes Hadoop data files look like SQL tables Apache Hive is a specialized execution front end for Hadoop. Hive lets you write ...

For some time Microsoft didn’t offer a solution for processing big data in cloud environments. SQL Server is good for storage, but its ability to analyze terabytes of data is limited. Hadoop, which ...