Apartment-sharing startup Airbnb has open sourced a tool called AirpalĀ that the company built to give more of its employees access to the data they need for their jobs. Airpal is built… 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 »
This past Friday, Hortonworks made good on its announced intention to present an initial public offering to the market. The shares were initially priced at $16, opened with an initial bid… Read more »
Qubole, the Hadoop-as-a-service startup from Ashish Thusoo and Joydeep Sen Sarma, has raised a $13 million series B round of venture capital led by Norwest Ventures. Thusoo and Sen Sarma created… Read more »
The New York Times built an in-house crowdsourcing platform called Hive so that readers could help it identify old print ads — and now the paper has open-sourced the software that… Read more »
Apache Drill has graduated to Top-Level Project status. Is it merely ready for primetime or will it succeed there? And does the Big Data world need another SQL-on-Hadoop engine? Read more »
eBay has open sourced a database technology, called Kylin, that takes advantage of distributed processing and the HBase data store in order to return faster results for SQL queries over Hadoop… 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 »