The open source Hadoop framework is ideal for distributed processing of large data sets across large numbers of severs. What it isn’t good at is speed. Actian Corp., which makes a number of ...

In years to come, we might remember October 2011 as the month the big database vendors gave in to the dark side and embraced Hadoop. In October, both Microsoft and Oracle announced product offerings ...

The three leaders of the relational database market are responding to the sudden mania for the data processing technology Hadoop in three very different ways. While startups and established data ...

You can add MarkLogic to the growing list of database vendors rushing to embrace the open-source Hadoop programming framework for large-scale data processing. MarkLogic 5, which became generally ...

Drawn to Scale has entered into a partnership with MapR Technologies Inc. to provide real time Hadoop databases to its customers. With this real time SQL technology, mobile and interactive web ...

The three leaders of the relational database market are responding to the sudden mania for the data processing technology Hadoop in three very different ways. While startups and established data ...

Yale University researchers on Monday released an open-source parallel database that they say combines the data-crunching prowess of a relational database with the scalability of next-generation ...

Hadoop’s capabilities now make it possible to stream data into the cluster and analyze it in an interactive fashion—both in real time. Hadoop was purpose-built for cost-effective analysis of data sets ...

Online database repository provider RainStor today announced what it calls the industry’s first enterprise-class database that runs natively on Hadoop. RainStor’s Big Data Analytics on Hadoop software ...

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MapR CMO Jack Norris won’t tell us if an IPO is still in the cards this year for his big data crunching startup. But he had plenty to share about the news his company is making at Strata + Hadoop ...