ScaleOut expects the hServer Hadoop technology to find uses in areas such as equity trading, e-commerce, reservations systems, and credit-card fraud detection. Updating data while Hadoop executes.

As the Hadoop growth curves illustrate, the technological foundation for a data-oriented open-source ecosystem has been laid, and a family of related technology is starting to emerge.

Meanwhile, eBay is using Hadoop technology and the Hbase database, which supports real-time analysis of Hadoop data, to build a new search engine for its auction site.

“We are excited to work with the Apache Drill community in integrating the latest SQL-on-Hadoop technology into the MicroStrategy Analytics Platform™,” said Paul Zolfaghari, president ...

Yahoo this afternoon announced plans to spin of its open source Apache Hadoop technology into a new company called Hortonworks. Hortonworks will be funded by Yahoo and venture capital firm ...

As the Hadoop ecosystem matures, the consensus in the industry has been that adoption of Hadoop technology is steady amid continuing disruptive innovation within the open-source framework. However, ...

Facebook said it uses Hadoop technology to capture and store billions of pieces of content generated by its members daily. The data is analyzed using the open source Apache Hive data warehousing ...