Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) vendor Altiscale is moving up the stack with a new service called Altiscale Insight Cloud. The offering sits atop Altiscale Data Cloud, the company's existing service that ...

Everyone tends to focus on the “big” in Big Data, so much so that it’s easy to lose focus on the fact that Hadoop is really about data. Let’s regroup for a minute and really look at what’s going on ...

Everyone tends to focus on the “big” in Big Data, so much so that it’s easy to lose focus on the fact that Hadoop is really about data. Let’s regroup for a minute and really look at what’s going on ...

In time, the Hadoop stack – and we are using this term in the broadest sense, not literally just MapReduce running atop the Hadoop Distributed File System – will absorb all kinds of workloads, and ...

As a platform for doing analytics on large datasets that is much less costly than would be possible with parallel data warehouses, Hadoop and its myriad extensions and modified underpinnings has ...

Today, DataStax released Brisk, an open-source Hadoop distribution that adds real-time features and reduces the complexity with deploying and running Hadoop and Hive. Apache Cassandra powers Brisk; ...