With strong personalities at play and a lack of any legal recourse, companies involved with open-source projects may get more than they bargain for when harassment and even death threats occur… Read more »
There has been a spate of product announcements and integrations over the past few weeks signaling that many big data workloads — including, and especially, Hadoop — will soon be ready… Read more »
Some members of the Hadoop community are proposing a new object storage environment for Hadoop, which would let the big data platform store data in a manner similar to popular cloud… Read more »
Major Hadoop distros updated, numerous new releases, and major industry partnerships round out the news on Strata + Hadoop World’s pre-con day. Read more »
Teradata and Cloudera have signed a deal that includes some technology integrations as well as joint sales and marketing efforts. Teradata is also launching its own Hadoop cloud service, which will… Read more »
Hadoop, the open source big-data framework, has gradually evolved from being a shiny object in the laboratory to an increasingly serious tool finding its place in the Enterprise. At Gigaom, we’ve covered… Read more »
MapR has integrated the Apache Drill SQL-on-Hadoop engine into its big data platform. MapR led the development of Drill, which is part of a larger movement within the company toward building… Read more »
Hortonworks is working on a new initiative called Stinger.next, which it hopes will remake Apache Hive into a much more-capable SQL engine within the next year and a half. A greatly… Read more »