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 ...

In this video from Cloudera, random people are asked, “What is Hadoop?” What can Apache Hadoop do for you? Watch the video to find out what other people think Apache Hadoop is (or isn’t). Share your ...

Yesterday during his keynote at HadoopWorld 2011, Apache Hadoop creator and Cloudera employee Doug Cutting announced that the next version of Cloudera’s Distribution Including Hadoop (CDH4) will be ...

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 ...

Apache Spark is an execution engine that broadens the type of computing workloads Hadoop can handle, while also tuning the performance of the big data framework. Hadoop specialist Cloudera recently ...

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 ...

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 ...

When it comes to optimizing Hadoop performance, DevOps professionals and the administrators who manage distributed storage and processing systems might want to pull out a page or two from their high ...

Hadoop, the data processing framework that’s become a platform unto itself, is only as good as the components that plug into it. But the conventional MapReduce component for Hadoop has a reputation ...