Significantly, Google Cloud Dataflow is meant to replace MapReduce, the software at the heart of Hadoop and other big data processing systems. MapReduce was originally developed by Google and ...

Two Google big data toolsets have finally moved out of beta and into full commercial release, adding to its cloud portfolio a data analysis framework and a service for managing data streams in ...

Taking on Google, Databricks plans to offer its own cloud service for analyzing live data streams, one based on the Apache Spark software. Databricks Cloud is designed to provide a platform for ...