Data science is an interdisciplinary sphere of study that has gained traction over the years, given the sheer amount of data we produce on a daily basis — projected to be over 2.5 quintillion bytes of ...

With the new release of its Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has radically expanded the set of supporting tools for the data processing framework. “What we saw was that most organizations deploy quite a ...

Hortonworks CEO talks about the origin of Hadoop and how his company intends to monetize the open-source, big data standout. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing ...

With the new release of its Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has radically expanded the set of supporting tools for the data processing framework. “What we saw was that most organizations deploy quite a ...

With its new partner certification program, Cloudera is trying to foster a large and thriving Hadoop ecosystem with itself at the center. A certification from Cloudera means that the hardware or ...

MapR has introduced native security authentication and authorization for the MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop. MapR’s security enhancments are aimed at enabling businesses to secure all of the ...

With Spark Summit getting under way this week in San Francisco, a number of players in the Big Data game will be making announcements around Apache Spark, the open source in-memory-oriented Big Data ...

Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. You'll hear it mentioned often, along with associated technologies such as Hive and Pig. But what does it do, and ...

At the end of the first Toy Story movie, all of the toys terrorize a bullying kid who is in the habit of destroying toys. Woody, the leader, explains that the toys broke “the rules” in showing the kid ...