ODPi today unveiled the second major release of its Runtime Specification that’s geared at setting a standard for Hadoop components to ensure greater interoperability among distributions and ...

The underlying programming model for MapReduce has been revamped and has changed quite a bit. Chuck Lam, the author of Hadoop in Action Benefits that keep getting better include high levels of ...

Hadoop is not what it used to be, and we mean this in a good way. If we were to speak in hype cycle terms, we would say sometime in the past few years Hadoop exited the peak of inflated expectations ...

The Hadoop market is white hot right now. It seems everywhere we turn there is a new company throwing their hat into the Hadoop world. Is all of the attention justified? Is this a case of overhype ...

It is hard to think of a technology that is more identified with the rise of big data than Hadoop. Since its creation, the framework for distributed processing of massive datasets on commodity ...

The need by corporate IT operations to enable easier interaction with massive — and fast growing — data sets in Hadoop environments is driving a flurry of vendor activity. For one, Splunk last week ...