What are some of the cool things in the 2.0 release of Hadoop? To start, how about a revamped MapReduce? And what would you think of a high availability (HA) implementation of the Hadoop Distributed ...

It would be pure understatement to say that the world has changed since Hadoop debuted just over a decade ago. Rewind the tape to 5 - 10 years ago, and if you wanted to work with big data, Hadoop was ...

Just five years ago, the infrastructure space was awash in stories about the capabilities cooked into the Hadoop platform—something that was, even then, only a few pieces of code cobbled onto the core ...

Every company has Big Data in its future and every company will eventually be in the data business - By Thomas H. Davenport. In a fast-paced technology and programming world where more data is created ...

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 conventional ...

At the end of the first Toy Story movie, all of the toys terrorize a bullying kid who is in the habit of destroying toys. Woody, the leader, explains that the toys broke “the rules” in showing the kid ...