The explosion of data is causing people to rethink their long-term storage strategies. Most agree that distributed systems, one way or another, will be involved. But when it comes down to picking the ...

Data Lake’s system uses a public blockchain to record the giving or revoking of consent from people and patients who want to donate their medical data to scientific research.

It’s tempting to think that Hadoop, with its flexible file management system and robust high performance map/reduce processing model, is all you need to mange large volumes of data in the data layer ...

Part 4 of CRN’s Big Data 100 takes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the data warehouse and data lake systems space.

Hadoop data lake architecture is made of several modules, including HDFS (Hadoop distributed file system), YARN, MapReduce, and Hadoop common. Hadoop stores various data types, including JSON objects, ...