Last week, I wrote briefly about Apache HBase pushing out its 1.0 release. Subsequently, news of several more new releases of Big Data-related projects rolled out of the Apache Software Foundation. I… Read more »
Early adopters of the data lake are integrating Hadoop into current workflows and addressing challenges around the cleanliness, validity, and protection of their data. Read more »
Separating hardware from software allows the end user to tailor the best possible configuration at the minimum price and operational costs. Read more »
You may recall that Cloudera and Hortonworks each acquired Hadoop security companies last year. Hortonworks acquired XA Secure and Cloudera acquired Gazzang. I covered the XA Secure acquisition in a post on this blog and… Read more »
Projects like Apache YARN expand the types of workloads for which Hadoop is a viable and compelling solution, leading practitioners to think more creatively managing data. Read more »
Enterprises adding a management layer to Hadoop on-premises can add the advantages of cloud-based Hadoop while maintaining control of their data. Read more »
It’s not for everyone, but if you’re storing petabytes of data Hadoop, Quantcast thinks it has the cure to your woes. Its newly open sourced Quantcast File System promises smaller clusters… Read more »
Although it’s still a work in progress, 0xdata thinks it has the answer to the problem of doing advanced statistical analysis at scale: Build on HDFS for scale, use the widely… Read more »
Big data has become the latest front for the patent troll epidemic as a shell company is suing firms for using a common software framework known as the Hadoop Distributed File… Read more »
Hadoop is on its way to becomig the de facto platform for the next-generation of data-based applications, but it’s not without some flaws. Ironically, one of Hadoop’s biggest shortcomings right now… Read more »