Apache Hadoop is already employed by many companies including Microsoft, EMC, Google, Amazon, IBM, Yahoo and Facebook, who have been instrumental in helping to develop and test the software prior ...

Apache Hadoop may be used interchangeably to refer to Apache Spark and other data science tools. SEE: For more clarity on how to approach Hadoop, check out our Hadoop cheat sheet.

Apache Parquet, which provides columnar storage in Hadoop, is now a top-level Apache Software Foundation (ASF)-sponsored project, paving the way for its more advanced use in the Hadoop ecosystem.

Enterprise interest in Hadoop has been tempered by security worries. Apache Ranger wants to be the solution for authorization and access control Hadoop has begun a slow and inexorable move from ...