Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. You'll hear it mentioned often, along with associated technologies such as Hive and Pig. But what does it do, and ...

Google and its MapReduce framework may rule the roost when it comes to massive-scale data processing, but there’s still plenty of that goodness to go around. This article gets you started with Hadoop, ...

Volante Technologies, a global leader in the provision of innovative financial data integration, today announced that it has enhanced Volante Designer version 5.0 to support the Hadoop® framework.

Suppose you want to run regular statistical analyses on your Web site’s traffic log data — several hundred terabytes, updated weekly. (Don’t laugh. This is not unheard of for popular Web sites.) ...

Thank heaven for Hive, a data analysis and query front end for Hadoop that makes Hadoop data files look like SQL tables Apache Hive is a specialized execution front end for Hadoop. Hive lets you write ...