One company called Cloudera (which VentureBeat recently profiled) is commercializing the Java-based open source Hadoop implementation, but that may not be the most efficient.

GUEST OPINION: One of the most popular trends in learning Hadoop is to process big data. Here's why Java developers should learn Hadoop. Java developers are known for developing robust and ...

“Spring Hadoop was created to make it more straightforward for enterprise Java developers to use Apache Hadoop,” Fitzgerald said. With the integration, VMWare has taken Spring’s dependency ...

You can use Java POJOs, but there's also a native support for Hadoop Writables in Avro. There's no impedance mismatch between the Java codes you're writing and the data that you're analyzing.

Apache Hive: This is the original SQL-on-Hadoop solution, which tries to emulate the behavior, syntax, and interface (s) of MySQL, including a command-line client. It also includes a Java API and ...

Microsoft's getting into the Hadoop game, and people are skeptical. Can Microsoft really embrace open source technology? And if it can, will it end up co-opting it somehow, or will it truly play ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- VMware this week introduced its Spring Hadoop software, which is intended to make it easier for Java developers utilizing the Spring Framework to leverage Apache Hadoop data ...

Bonaci’s History of Hadoop starts humbly enough in 1997, when Doug Cutting sat down to write the first edition of the Lucene search engine. In 2000, Cutting placed Lucene into the open source realm ...