Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. But what does it do, and why do you need all its strangely-named friends, such as Oozie, Zookeeper and Flume?

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

Called, Big Data Analytics for Security, the offering combines MapR’s Hadoop distribution, a collection of machine learning algorithms from MapR, MapReduce-based analytic jobs, and Platfora’s Hadoop ...

Given the rise of big data, I’m sure you’re hearing the buzz around Apache Hadoop, the software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license.

Hadoop carries a lot of promise in the IT world for the way it has democratized access to massively parallel storage and computational power. But the level of hype that surrounds Hadoop is ...

Given the rise of big data, I'm sure you're hearing the buzz around Apache Hadoop, the software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license.

People are often hung up on the volume aspect of big data but other factors can be just as telling in the issues they raise for business.

Analyzing large volumes of data is only part of what makes big data analytics different from traditional data analytics ...

As 2014 gets into full swing, Hadoop is increasingly being used for applications that are integral to daily business operations. No longer is Hadoop viewed by some organizations as just a platform ...