As a poster child for big data, Hadoop is continually brought out as the reference architecture for big data analytics. But what exactly is Hadoop and what are the key points of Hadoop storage ...

In this series of Big Data and Hadoop, we will introduce all the key components of the ecosystem. Stay tuned! About the authors: Harish Ganesan is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Co-Founder ...

Next week opens one the largest Big Data events in the World: The O’Reilly Strata + Hadoop World Conference in New York City. The event is set to draw thousands of Big Data enthusiasts into the ...

Apache Hadoop is the open source release of a technology that preceded just about every data storage and analytics tool that has since been labelled 'big data'. It is - in many respects - the ...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is bringing Hadoop to the Windows Azure cloud. The popular big-data analytics framework is now available on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. On the one hand, it's great to ...

Having introduced various components of Hadoop Ecosystem in part 1 and part 2, the last part of this series covers Hive, HBase, Mahout, Sqoop and ZooKeeper.

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.

Big data and Hadoop, two vastly used terms in the data science realm are being used by businesses to leverage their growth and scale. One is incomplete without the other, meaning they both go hand ...

MapR Technologies CEO talks about the Apache Hadoop project and what enhancements his company has added.

Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive -- and constantly growing -- datasets.