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 »
The Strata + Hadoop World Big Data confab starts up in San Jose, CA this morning, and a bunch of vendor announcements are coming along for the ride. Some of the news broke just… Read more »
Hadoop vendor MapR and data center automation startup Mesosphere have created an open source technology called Myriad, which is supposed to make it easier to run Hadoop workloads on top of the… Read more »
There was a time, a little over two years ago, when SQL-on-Hadoop was about cracking open access to Hadoop data for those with SQL skillsets and eliminating the exclusivity of access… Read more »
The holiday season news drought in data and analytics is definitely over. A bunch of announcements from commercial vendors, and others from the open source world, have hit in the last week, and… 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 »
LinkedIn shed more light Tuesday on a big-data framework dubbed Gobblin that helps the social network take in tons of data from a variety of sources so that it can be… Read more »