Today, Samsung Next, the venture capital arm of Samsung Electronics, announced it is making a strategic investment in Seattle-based Expanso, a startup looking to power distributed data processing ...

If you haven’t heard of Flink until now, get ready for the deluge. As one of a stream of Apache incubator-to-top-level projects turned commercial effort, the data processing engine’s promise is to ...

Employing Hadoop’s distributed file system (HDFS) as data storage, Hive inherits all of Hadoop’s fault tolerance, scalability, and adeptness with huge data sets.

SkySQL, the cloud database based on the well-known MariaDB open source RDBMS, adds distributed database capabilities for write-intensive applications scalability and high availability.

Hazelcast, a provider of an open source in-memory data grid (IMDG) platform, is unveiling Hazelcast Jet, a new platform that gives users a distributed processing engine for big data streams. With ...

AWS recently announced a distributed map for Step Functions, a solution for large-scale parallel data processing. Optimized for S3, the new feature of the AWS orchestration service targets ...

The idea is pretty simple and actually pretty old: Use a distributed architecture on large databases to quickly return the data requested. This approach runs the database query across many servers ...

Apache Flink, a distributed in-memory data processing framework project born out of Germany, this week graduated the Apache Incubator stage and became a Top-Level Project at the open source software ...

The growing popularity of small, distributed clouds, or “cloudlets” may be an implicit recognition of limitations in how “traditional” clouds collect, store, and process data.