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, ...

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The Apache Software Foundation unveiled its latest release of its open source data processing program, Hadoop 2. It runs multiple applications simultaneously to enable users to quickly and efficiently ...

Hadoop training courses and certification programs are available from companies including Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM and MapR. But if you’re not ready to commit to formal training courses, there are ...

The Hadoop community recently promoted YARN-- the next-gen Hadoop data processing framework -- to the status of "sub-project" of the Apache Hadoop Top Level Project. The promotion puts YARN on the ...

Interest in Apache Spark surpassed Apache Hadoop for the first time last month, according to Google Trends. While it’s not a definitive statement of Spark’s actual impact on big data processing in the ...

Concurrent says Cascading 3.0 will support local in-memory, Apache MapReduce and Apache Tez out of the gate with support for Apache Spark and Apache Storm soon to follow. Organizations are ...

Apache Spark should be considered the default engine for Hadoop workloads going forward, taking the job that MapReduce held for many years, Cloudera announced today. The Hadoop distributor also ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 6, 2014) - Concurrent, Inc., the leader in data application infrastructure, today introduced a new version of Driven, the industry's leading application ...

The Apache Software Foundation unveiled its latest release of its open source data processing program, Hadoop 2. It runs multiple applications simultaneously to enable users to quickly and efficiently ...