That uncharacteristically overt operation raised a few eyebrows, although in fairness to the NSA it was not its first gift of technology to the open-source community. It had contributed the Accumulo ...

In a move that sets the stage for the next evolution of Hadoop, Hortonworks this week announced it will acquire Onyara, a major contributor to an open source Apache NiFi project dedicated to creating ...

Hortonworks, a publicly traded company selling a commercial distribution of the Hadoop open-source big data software, announced today that it has acquired Onyara, an early-stage startup whose ...

It may not be much of a surprise that the National Security Agency has expertise in data management. What’s surprising is that the agency has released one of its data management tools to the public, ...

I'm trying to determine if this flow-based programming paradigm is good for us. We're going to, soon, be inundated with multiple different "streams" of inbound data in multiple formats and there are ...