Big on Data bro Andrew Brust's recent post on the spring cleaning of Hadoop projects evidently touched a nerve, given the readership numbers that went off the charts. By now, the Apache Hadoop family ...

This is a comprehensive Apache Hadoop and Spark comparison, covering their differences, features, benefits, and use cases. Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop are both popular, open-source data science ...

It’s in the nature of hype bubbles to obscure important new paradigms behind a cloud of excitement and exaggerated claims. For example, the phrase “big data” has been so widely and poorly applied that ...

The opportunity and challenge of Big Data from new platforms such as Hadoop is that it opens a new range of analytics. On one hand, Big Data analytics have updated and revived programmatic access to ...

NoSQL and Hadoop—two foundations of the emerging agile data architecture—have been on the scene for several years now, and, industry observers say, adoption continues to accelerate—especially within ...

Did you know that 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone? With such an overwhelming influx of information, businesses are constantly seeking efficient ways to manage and ...

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 ...

In much the same way that Microsoft brought spreadsheet crunching to the business world through its now-ubiquitous Excel, the company is hoping to make a similar impact with big data analysis with its ...

When you're creating a new way of storing and processing data for global business infrastructure, a little fun can go a long way toward relieving the pressure. No one knows that better than Doug ...

As a poster child for big data, Hadoop is continually brought out as the reference architecture for big data analytics. But what exactly is Hadoop and what are the key points of Hadoop storage ...