Did you know that 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone? With such an overwhelming influx of information, businesses are constantly seeking efficient ways to manage and ...

Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop are both popular, open-source data science tools offered by the Apache Software Foundation. Developed and supported by the community, they continue to grow in popularity ...

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 a hot topic right now, in the tech press and in the minds of IT organizations with large amounts of data. What is Hadoop and why should business leaders care? Loraine Lawson has broken down ...

If you're a CIO, you should be taking Hadoop seriously. A technology that few people knew about five years ago is now poised to be a major player in enterprise architectures. For all the buzz around ...

Informatica has modified its business intelligence software so that it can work with Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution, the two companies announced Monday. Users of the Informatica’s business ...

The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. A reasonable estimate would put the technology on the “slope of ...

Pharmaceuticals firm GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has improved its research and development (R&D) capabilities through a programme to enable the sharing of data generated through the development of medicines ...

Storage technology has evolved and matured to the point where it has started to approach commodity status in many data centers. Nevertheless, today’s enterprises are faced with evolving needs that can ...

Here's a look at different ways to query Hadoop via SQL, some of which are part of the latest edition of MapR's Hadoop distribution SQL: old and busted. Hadoop: new hotness. That’s the conventional ...