Hadoop is a popular open-source distributed storage and processing framework. This primer about the framework covers commercial solutions, Hadoop on the public cloud, and why it matters for business.

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Ten years ago, on Jan. 28, 2006, Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella split the distributed file system and MapReduce facility from their open source Web crawler project (Apache Nutch) and spun it off as a ...

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 ...

Organizations today demand tools that provide familiar SQL-based access to data stored on HDFS. Today, MapR Technologies gave its customers yet another SQL interface when it announced support for ...

The Apache Software Foundation has released the first production version of Hadoop, the scalable, distributed computing software framework. Hadoop connects thousands of servers to process big data for ...

RainStor recently released RainStor Database 5.5 that is designed to both increase Big Data security and to simplify searching across massive databases. What RainStor has to say about this release ...

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A new report released today by researchers at cloud-native security company Aqua Security Software Ltd. warns of a new attack targeting Apache Hadoop and Flink applications. The attack is described as ...

Next week the SiliconAngle team is heading to the HadoopWorld event in New York City. We’ll be broadcasting theCube live and covering all the latest developments in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. But it ...