Rob Bearden, CEO of Hortonworks, Inc., which develops and supports Apache Hadoop, sees the hard work of the past few years coming into fruition. The market is on the brink of a positive explosion, ...

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 ...

Hadoop introduced a new way to simplify the analysis of large data sets, and in a very short time reshaped the big data market. In fact, today Hadoop is often synonymous with the term big data. Since ...

Data science is an interdisciplinary sphere of study that has gained traction over the years, given the sheer amount of data we produce on a daily basis — projected to be over 2.5 quintillion bytes of ...

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 ...

Apache's open source, Java-based Hadoop project implements the Map/Reduce paradigm. It is designed to be highly scalable. Apache's Hadoop is an open source project that implements a Java-based, ...