Data science is an interdisciplinary sphere of study that has gained traction over the years, given the sheer amount of data we produce on a daily basis — projected to be over 2.5 quintillion bytes of ...

Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. You'll hear it mentioned often, along with associated technologies such as Hive and Pig. But what does it do, and ...

The open-source tool simplifies big-data management, but don't think of it as just another means of data analysis, experts say. In the right application, Hadoop frees users to explore information in ...

The Apache Software Foundation has released the first production version of Hadoop, the scalable, distributed computing software framework. Hadoop connects thousands of servers to process big data for ...

The lure of using big data for your business is a strong one, and there is no brighter lure these days than Apache Hadoop, the scalable data storage platform that lies at the heart of many big data ...

Hadoop is not what it used to be, and we mean this in a good way. If we were to speak in hype cycle terms, we would say sometime in the past few years Hadoop exited the peak of inflated expectations ...

Hadoop is all the rage, it seems. With more than 150 enterprises of various sizes using it — including major companies such as JP Morgan Chase, Google and Yahoo — it may seem inevitable that the ...

Apache Hadoop isn’t the center of attention in the IT world anymore, and much of the hype has dissipated (or at least regrouped behind AI). But the open source software project still has a place for ...

Hadoop is a popular open-source distributed storage and processing framework. This primer about the framework covers commercial solutions, Hadoop on the public cloud, and why it matters for business.

Apache Hadoop emerged on the IT scene in 2006 with the promise to provide organizations with the capability to store an unprecedented volume of data using cheap, commodity hardware. In a sense, Hadoop ...

MapR CMO Jack Norris won’t tell us if an IPO is still in the cards this year for his big data crunching startup. But he had plenty to share about the news his company is making at Strata + Hadoop ...

According to historians of economic theory, there are two ways to define creative destruction. One is negative—that capitalist systems unleash forces that lead to their own demise. The other is ...