Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly provides an inclusive basic tutorial of the big data environment, including technologies, skill sets, and use cases, in “Big Data: Hadoop, Business ...

At the center of the new big data movement is the Hadoop framework, which provides an efficient file system and related ecosystem of solutions to store and analyze big datasets. The Hadoop ecosystem ...

Code submitted this week for inclusion in the Hadoop stack will help speed the spread of the distributed big-data platform, according to Hortonworks co-founder Arun Murthy. The submission of the ...

Actian is describing the newly announced Hadoop Edition of its analytics software as the first platform with full SQL support designed to run entirely natively on the distributed big-data framework.

Big data analytics is one of the major trends every company is told it must jump on for competitive advantage, even survival. As a result, there’s a lot of mythology around big data. Those myths can ...

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.