With the new release of its Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has radically expanded the set of supporting tools for the data processing framework. “What we saw was that most organizations deploy quite a ...

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 ...

Seeking to help standardize and simplify Hadoop adoption, Pivotal made three key announcements. First, the company is open sourcing components of its Big Data Suite, including Pivotal HD, HAWQ, ...

In what appears to be a change in direction, Hortonworks has released a completely open source Hadoop distribution based on Apache Hadoop that will compete head-on with Cloudera’s CDH3. The new ...

As if keeping tabs on how the different workloads in a data center interact wasn’t already difficult enough, Hadoop has another layer of dependencies among its internal components. The recently-funded ...

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MapR has introduced native security authentication and authorization for the MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop. MapR’s security enhancments are aimed at enabling businesses to secure all of the ...

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 ...

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