In a development that could have major implications for how document databases are deployed across the enterprise, MapR Technologies announced at the Strata + Hadoop World 2015 conference that its ...

Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) vendor Altiscale is moving up the stack with a new service called Altiscale Insight Cloud. The offering sits atop Altiscale Data Cloud, the company's existing service that ...

Big data is probably one of the most misused words of the last decade. It was widely promoted, discussed and spread by business managers, technical experts, and experienced academics. Slogans like ...

As a platform for doing analytics on large datasets that is much less costly than would be possible with parallel data warehouses, Hadoop and its myriad extensions and modified underpinnings has ...

The year 2013 has been a very fruitful one for the purveyors of non-relational database technologies. This week Hadoop analytics vendor Datameer announced venture capital funding of $19 million, a ...

In time, the Hadoop stack – and we are using this term in the broadest sense, not literally just MapReduce running atop the Hadoop Distributed File System – will absorb all kinds of workloads, and ...

Elephants, war rooms and 30 petabytes – this is what it takes to keep Facebook’s data in check according to one of its most recent blog posts. After building out its new data center in Prineville, ...

Hadoop, while it may be synonymous with big data, and while it may be free to access and work with, engineering teams globally will admit that behind every Hadoop undertaking is a major technical ...

Everyone tends to focus on the “big” in Big Data, so much so that it’s easy to lose focus on the fact that Hadoop is really about data. Let’s regroup for a minute and really look at what’s going on ...

As we've noted previously, the measure of success of an open source stack is the degree to which the target remains intact. That either comes as part of a captive open source project, where a vendor ...