Apache Spark is taking the big data world by storm, but the folks at Databricks wanted to disprove a misconception that its only performance advantages over Hadoop MapReduce come in-memory. 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 »
Next week is Strata + Hadoop World in New York, and there will be a huge slate of news from Big Data and analytics companies of all stripes. It will be exciting, and… Read more »
The third quarter showed clear signs of Hadoop’s maturation and the industry’s maturity in working with it. Meanwhile, megavendors continued to build out their big data and analytics portfolios. Read more »
ZoomData has raised another $17 million for its visualization technology that was built with stream processing and iPads in mind, but has since made the leap to historical data and desktops,… Read more »
I’ve written much in this space, and on the Gigaom blog, about YARN and its impact on how Hadoop will be used. Not very long ago, Hadoop was synonymous with the MapReduce… Read more »
Cloudera has acquired a data-visualization startup called DataPad, the founding team of which specializes in data analysis using the Python programming language. As Hadoop competition heats up, Cloudera might be ramping… Read more »
LinkedIn’s various data-tracking features, like generating who has recently viewed a user’s profile and keeping tabs on which people are following particular companies, are all fueled by the new data system… 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 »