It’s in the nature of hype bubbles to obscure important new paradigms behind a cloud of excitement and exaggerated claims. For example, the phrase “big data” has been so widely and poorly applied that ...

In a world of real-time data, why are we still so fixated on Hadoop? Hadoop, architected around batch processing, remains the poster child for big data, though its outsized reputation still outpaces ...

Hadoop introduced a new way to simplify the analysis of large data sets, and in a very short time reshaped the big data market. In fact, today Hadoop is often synonymous with the term big data. Since ...

Have questions about network security for expert Matt Pascucci? Send them via email today! (All questions are anonymous.) Since “big data” is a hot topic these days, there’s no question an increasing ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hortonworks, the leading contributor to and provider of enterprise Apache™ Hadoop®, today highlights the momentum of its global partner ecosystem that accelerates ...

Hadoop, an open source framework that enables distributed computing, has changed the way we deal with big data. Parallel processing with this set of tools can improve performance several times over.

The fall of MapR caused a rush to judgement about the future of Hadoop. To understand what this means for data initiatives, the viability of Hadoop and data lakes must be separately examined. Data ...

It’s been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a rack of computers. The buzzword is now well known to your boss but still just a vague and ...

One feature of the big data revolution is the acknowledgement that a single database management system architecture cannot meet all needs. For instance, if you need a system that can reliably process ...