The creator of the Hadoop platform, Doug Cutting, is surprised Hadoop didn't have to battle it out with more competitors in its early years but thinks it's now too late for a competitor to take on the ...

It’s in the nature of hype bubbles to obscure important new paradigms behind a cloud of excitement and exaggerated claims. For example, the phrase “big data” has been so widely and poorly applied that ...

A few weeks ago, two giants of the big data Hadoop era, Cloudera and Hortonworks, announced they would be merging. The announcement claimed it would be a “merger of equals.” It is fascinating to see ...

During the past few years Neustar, an $830 million publicly-traded data analytics company, has undergone a dramatic business transformation, and it’s been powered almost entirely by Hadoop. The ...

The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. A reasonable estimate would put the technology on the “slope of ...

Kyvos Insights, a big data analytics company, announced general availability of the next major version of Kyvos – a massively scalable, self-service analytics solution designed to make big data lakes ...

Hadoop, an open source framework that enables distributed computing, has changed the way we deal with big data. Parallel processing with this set of tools can improve performance several times over.

In a world of real-time data, why are we still so fixated on Hadoop? Hadoop, architected around batch processing, remains the poster child for big data, though its outsized reputation still outpaces ...

The demand for job skills related to data processing — NoSQL, Apache Hadoop, Python, and a smattering of other such skills — has hit all-time highs, according to statistics collected by tech job site ...