Google and its MapReduce framework may rule the roost when it comes to massive-scale data processing, but there’s still plenty of that goodness to go around. This article gets you started with Hadoop, ...

Hadoop 101: Simplifying MapReduce Development Once the user begins developing MapReduce applications, another set of challenges emerge. Users have to make several design choices which materially ...

Reporting and analysis drives businesses in making the best possible decisions. The source of all these decisions is the data. There are two types of data: structured and unstructured. Most recently, ...

Data is the new currency of the modern world. Businesses that successfully maximize its value will have a decisive impact on their own value and on their customers’ success. As the de-facto platform ...

Sybase is hoping its IQ analytic database can make its mark in the burgeoning “Big Data” market with an array of new features, including native integration with the open-source MapReduce and Hadoop ...

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 ...