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 ...

The row-store RDBMS paradigm (that is, Oracle) has inherent scalability limits, so when you attempt to create one big instance or RAC cluster to serve all, you end up serving none. With Hadoop ...

It is hard to think of a technology that is more identified with the rise of big data than ... products. “Hadoop represented the technology enabler that allowed companies of smaller scale to ...

If Hadoop is leaving your data lake project all wet, you may be a good candidate for an emerging architectural concept called the big data fabric. As industry experts explain, big data fabrics bring a ...

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 ...

An increasing number of jumbo-size enterprise data sets-and all the technology needed to create, store ... emergence of new big data analytics engines, such as Apache Hadoop, LexisNexis ...

Hadoop is not meant as a storage environment. Metadata is kept on one server. Data is replicated three times to make sure nothing gets lost. That can get expensive when the data store is petabytes ...

No longer is Hadoop viewed by some organizations as just a platform for big data proof-of-concept applications. IT leaders should be developing a strategy for production-ready infrastructure ...

The presentation will explain how Drill supports queries schema ... What: MapR Product Marketing Manager Nitin Bandugula will present: "Big Data Case Studies Across Industries and Functions." ...

The data analytics market is starting to boom. Hadoop distributions from big data companies like Cloudera have matured and are becoming more useful as they allow for better ways to perform real ...