I gave an introductory talk on Hadoop yesterday at the Visual Studio Live! conference in Las Vegas. During the talk, I discussed how Hadoop Streaming, a utility which allows arbitrary executables to ...

Hadoop disrupted, and in some ways became synonymous with big data, by offering a framework for cheap storage and scale out processing. Parallel to Hadoop came the flurry of NoSQL solutions that also ...

In a world of real-time data, why are we still so fixated on Hadoop? Hadoop, architected around batch processing, remains the poster child for big data, though its outsized reputation still outpaces ...

The buzz in the Big Data world is all about speed. How fast can a company get their data, and even more importantly, how quickly can they draw value from it? The solutions, such as streaming, are ...

A year to the week after launching its homegrown in-memory stream processing platform into general availability, DataTorrent Inc. is releasing the code for the core execution engine under a free ...

The ability to inexpensively collect massive amounts of Big Data using Hadoop is one thing. Being able to manage all that data is another matter altogether. With that issue in mind, Hortonworks today ...