These projects go by an odd assortment of names: Pig, Hive, Flume, Zookeeper, but they’re often short-changed when we talk about Hadoop. I’ve seen them referred to as the “Hadoop stack,” though some ...

Dell and Cloudera have created a Hadoop package of pre-integrated software and hardware that promises to cut deployment times for the open-source data analytics platform.

Everyone tends to focus on the “big” in Big Data, so much so that it’s easy to lose focus on the fact that Hadoop is really about data.

Perhaps more importantly, the Spark stack has over a hundred different data transformation algorithms for commonly used manipulations. In many ways, Spark has a complementary capability set to Hadoop, ...

As we've noted previously, the measure of success of an open source stack is the degree to which the target remains intact. That either comes as part of a captive open source project, where a ...

Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) vendor Altiscale is moving up the stack with a new service called Altiscale Insight Cloud. The offering sits atop Altiscale Data Cloud, the company's existing service ...

Hortonworks plans to fill in the missing pieces of the Hadoop stack, such as management tools, with fully open source components.

The year 2013 has been a very fruitful one for the purveyors of non-relational database technologies. This week Hadoop analytics vendor Datameer announced venture capital funding of $19 million, a ...

Hortonworks plans to fill in the missing pieces of the Hadoop stack, such as management tools, with fully open source components.

As Hadoop use grows, however, so too does the power and infrastructure required to accommodate it. Facebook Engineer Paul Yang recently highlighted the challenges Facebook had when moving the Hadoop ...