The creator of the Hadoop platform, Doug Cutting, is surprised Hadoop didn't have to battle it out with more competitors in its early years but thinks it's now too late for a competitor to take on ...

Hadoop was named after a toy elephant, sounds like a Dr. Seuss character, and it's the hottest thing in big-data technology. It's a software framework that makes short work of a tall task ...

Life after Hadoop. The past few years have seen a dramatic shift towards AI- and data-driven applications as well as more diverse data storage. This shift, combined with Hadoop complexity, ...

I've been hearing the term "Hadoop" everywhere. I asked my colleague David White, ARC's analytics expert, what it was and whether it was something that supply chain executives needed to know about.

On Monday, Greenplum -- now owned by tech giant EMC -- revealed that it has spent the last two years building a new Hadoop platform that it believes will leave the traditional database behind.

Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop are both popular, open-source data science tools offered by the Apache Software Foundation. Developed and supported by the community, they continue to grow in ...

Hadoop helped popularize and simplify this analytical use of data in 2010, and since then the technology and techniques involved have developed at a break-neck speed. Hadoop’s project was massively ...

Here's a look at different ways to query Hadoop via SQL, some of which are part of the latest edition of MapR's Hadoop distribution SQL: old and busted. Hadoop: new hotness. That’s the ...

Today, Hadoop underpins not only Yahoo, but Facebook, Twitter, eBay, and dozens of other high-profile web outfits. It analyzes the vast amounts of data generated by these online operations, but it ...

Now Hadoop is a burgeoning ecosystem, and a big part of its success is due to what we call SQL-on-Hadoop. Hadoop has always been able to store and process lots of data for cheap.