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 ...

Did you know that 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone? With such an overwhelming influx of information, businesses are constantly seeking efficient ways to manage and ...

The quest to replace Hadoop’s aging MapReduce is a bit like waiting for buses in Britain. You watch a really long time, then a bunch come along at once. We already have Tez and Spark in the mix, but ...

Data science is an interdisciplinary sphere of study that has gained traction over the years, given the sheer amount of data we produce on a daily basis — projected to be over 2.5 quintillion bytes of ...

Hadoop is a popular open-source distributed storage and processing framework. This primer about the framework covers commercial solutions, Hadoop on the public cloud, and why it matters for business.