Managing prodigious volumes of data is not only challenging from a technological standpoint, it's often expensive as well. Apache Hadoop is a data management system adept at bring data processing and ...

The MapR Converged Data Platform supports big data storage and processing through the Apache collection of Hadoop products, as well as its added-value components. These components from MapR ...

The floods that devastated the hard disk industry in Thailand are now half a year old, and the prices per terabyte are finally dropping once again. That means data will start piling up and people ...

Hadoop shows a lot of promise as a relatively inexpensive landing place for the streams of big data coursing through organizations. The open source technology provides a distributed framework, built ...

Actian, provider of data management solutions, has announced the general availability of its Hadoop On Demand Integration module v2.0 for ParAccel, including support for HCatalog, the centralized ...

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 ...