Hadoop veteran Arun Murthy says Apache Slider will have a major bearing on the future versatility and take-up of the distributed big-data technology.

The venerable C programming language isn't going away, as shown by Google's open sourcing of a framework to let Big Data devs run native C code in Hadoop: MapReduce for C.

RainStor Big Data Analytics on Hadoop addresses some of the big problems with Hadoop, namely the complexity of interacting with it, the time it takes to run MapReduce jobs on large datasets and ...