Hadoop was named after a toy elephant, sounds like a Dr. Seuss character, and it's the hottest thing in big-data technology. It's a software framework that makes short work of a tall task ...

At the center of the new big data movement is the Hadoop framework, which provides an efficient file system and related ecosystem of solutions to store and analyze big datasets. The Hadoop ecosystem ...

The product is built on top of Hadoop 2.0 and allows companies to process massive amounts of big data in real time. According to Phu Hoang, co-founder of the company, who was one of the first ...

When Doug Cutting created the Hadoop framework 10 years ago he never expected it to bring massive-scale computing to the corporate world. "My expectations were more moderate than what we've seen ...