Data science is an interdisciplinary sphere of study that has gained traction over the years, given the sheer amount of data we produce on a daily basis — projected to be over 2.5 quintillion bytes of ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. In the right application, Hadoop frees users to explore information in whole new ways. For applications that involve comparisons between ...

Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. You'll hear it mentioned often, along with associated technologies such as Hive and Pig. But what does it do, and ...

The Apache Software Foundation has released the first production version of Hadoop, the scalable, distributed computing software framework. Hadoop connects thousands of servers to process big data for ...

As promised, the Apache Software Foundation delivered Hadoop version 3.0 before the end of the year. Now the Hadoop community turns its attention to versions 3.1 and 3.2, which are slated to bring ...

Big Data is emerging as an important tool to help organizations learn more about their business operations, product performance, and customer purchasing behavior. It is misunderstood by the media ...

When the Open Data Platform launched in February, it effectively split the Hadoop community down the middle, with Hortonworks, Pivotal, and IBM throwing in with the ODP, and MapR and Cloudera keeping ...

Hadoop is a popular open-source distributed storage and processing framework. This primer about the framework covers commercial solutions, Hadoop on the public cloud, and why it matters for business.

Hadoop is all the rage, it seems. With more than 150 enterprises of various sizes using it — including major companies such as JP Morgan Chase, Google and Yahoo — it may seem inevitable that the ...

Hadoop, the data processing framework that’s become a platform unto itself, is only as good as the components that plug into it. But the conventional MapReduce component for Hadoop has a reputation ...