Data scientists might be capable of getting valuable insights out of Hadoop, but that can’t be said of all salespeople. An engineer at TripAdvisor came up with a way to change… Read more »
Competition is feisty in the land of commercial Hadoop distributions, and a $50 million in venture capital re-up looks like it could come in handy for Hortonworks. Read more »
While the rest of the Hadoop world is trying to distance itself from Hive with new interactive engines, Hortonworks is trying to make it faster. It might actually be a sound… Read more »
In the tsunami of experimentation, investment, and deployment of systems that analyze big data, vendors have seemingly been trying approaches at two extremes—either embracing the Hadoop ecosystem or building increasingly sophisticated… Read more »
Cloudera’s Impala engine for interactive SQL queries on Hadoop data is now generally available, and CEO Mike Olson gives his lay of the competitive landscape. Read more »
Hadoop experts Qubole have just closed a Series A funding round for their service, which lets users run Hive data warehouse jobs in Amazon’s cloud. Read more »
Today’s most successful companies are the ones with the ability to capture and analyze all data available to them. Enter SQL-on-Hadoop solutions, which increase the accessibility of Hadoop and allow organizations… Read more »
Sure, more data scientists would be great. But Scott Brave, of Baynote, says the better solution is to create analytics products that are so easy to use that you don’t even… Read more »
Two key members of the Facebook team that created the Hadoop query language Hive are launching their own big data startup called Qubole on Thursday. Qubole is a managed version of… Read more »
Ask a venture capitalist about big data and she will probably tell you about visualization. Only it won’t be visualization in the usual sense. Instead, it will be about visualization of… Read more »