The Apache Software Foundation has announced the first production-ready release of Spark, analysis software that could speed jobs that run on the Hadoop data-processing platform. Dubbed the “Hadoop ...

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.

The CEO of a new Yahoo spinoff dedicated to developing and promoting the popular Apache Hadoop distributed computing platform urged adoption Wednesday of Apache’s Hadoop distribution. But Cloudera, ...

While the individual project retirement announcements may seem insignificant, taken as a whole, they constitute a watershed event. To help practitioners and industry watchers appreciate the full ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hortonworks, the leading contributor to and provider of enterprise Apache™ Hadoop®, today highlights the momentum of its global partner ecosystem that accelerates ...

The market for Hadoop and related products is one of the most active in all of enterprise software. I’ve developed a simple framework that can help quickly explain the differences in the way Hadoop ...

Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. You'll hear it mentioned often, along with associated technologies such as Hive and Pig. But what does it do, and ...

Yesterday during his keynote at HadoopWorld 2011, Apache Hadoop creator and Cloudera employee Doug Cutting announced that the next version of Cloudera’s Distribution Including Hadoop (CDH4) will be ...

Code submitted this week for inclusion in the Hadoop stack will help speed the spread of the distributed big-data platform, according to Hortonworks co-founder Arun Murthy. The submission of the ...

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 ...