The days of businesses relying on locked-down operating systems and platforms tightly controlled by commercial organisations are numbered, according to Hadoop creator Doug Cutting. Proprietary ...

Hadoop, or formally Apache Hadoop, is the popular software for creating clusters of computers to handle large data sets, known familiarly as big data. It is an open source project that has gathered ...

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 ...

Intel is set to cause a tremor in the big data market tomorrow. The chip maker will announce tomorrow that it will stop pushing its own distribution of open-source Hadoop software for storing and ...

Anticipating greater Apache Hadoop use in production environments, Cloudera has outfitted its commercial distribution of the data processing framework with additional configuration and management ...

Since its founding in 2011, Hortonworks Inc. has fought battles on two fronts: Persuade corporations to adopt an entirely new, open-source data platform called Hadoop for a novel type of analytic ...

As organizations continue to evaluate Hadoop for large scale data analysis, Hadoop software vendors are refining their products for enterprise use, addressing concerns around reliability and expanded ...

Doug Cutting stands head-and-shoulders above most developers I’ve met—figuratively, as well as literally. As one of the founders of the Hadoop open source project, which allows many Big Data projects ...

The Apache Software Foundation unveiled its latest release of its open source data processing program, Hadoop 2. It runs multiple applications simultaneously to enable users to quickly and efficiently ...

Anticipating greater Apache Hadoop use in production environments, Cloudera has outfitted its commercial distribution of the data processing framework with additional configuration and management ...

Startup Kyvos Insights emerged from stealth mode Tuesday, debuting its big data analytics software designed to glean insights from huge volumes of corporate data. Kyvos Insights, based in Los Gatos, ...