Hadoop is hard. There’s just no way around that. Setting up and running a cluster is hard, and so is developing applications that make sense of, and create value from, big data. What Hadoop really ...

MapR's latest Hadoop distribution includes support for Hadoop 2.2 with YARN, but is also backward compatible with the MapReduce 1.x scheduler, promising organizations a risk-free upgrade path to ...

SAP’s recent acquisition of Altiscale Inc., a company that offers a cloud-based version of the Hadoop open-source software for storing, processing and analyzing many different data styles, gives ...

GridGain announced In-Memory Accelerator for Hadoop, offering benefits of in-memory computing to Hadoop applications. InfoQ spoke with Nikita Ivanov from GridGain about the product's architecture.

Apache Hadoop manages data processing & storage for big data. Learn more about its features and how it works now.

Hortonworks' vision of Apache Hadoop's role in the Modern Data Architecture. Together with its extensive partner ecosystem, Hortonworks is ensuring that Apache Hadoop integrates with, extends and ...

Data as a platform, supported by Hadoop, helps address concerns that SOA practitioners have been battling -- from jumbles of point-to-point interfaces to awkward integration.

As the Yahoo Search Blog explains, open-source Apache Hadoop is now at the center of Yahoo’s search index: We are now using Hadoop to process the Webmap — the application which produces the ...

“Hadoop is no longer an option; it’s a key piece of the overall architecture. There has to be a core that people like Platfora can build on top of,” said Jim Walker, Senior Director of ...