Pivotal has launched the latest release of its Hadoop distribution Pivotal HD and put into general availability Gemfire XD, an in-memory database system that integrates with the Hadoop distribution ...

The three leaders of the relational database market are responding to the sudden mania for the data processing technology Hadoop in three very different ways. While startups and established data ...

There are many instances today where the use of traditional databases causes inefficiency and increased workloads. If some of those traditional systems were Hadoop databases instead, users would be a ...

Yale University researchers on Monday released an open-source parallel database that they say combines the data-crunching prowess of a relational database with the scalability of next-generation ...

No one questions that the Hadoop/Spark ecosystem can yield business-changing insights. Yet few seem willing to face up to the sorry state of big data security Given the pace at which big data software ...

Start-up database vendor Hadapt expects to go into beta testing this summer with its eponymous platform, which creates a hybrid Apache Hadoop–relational database environment, vendor officials tell ...

NEW YORK, N.Y., Sept. 29 — MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache Hadoop that integrates web-scale enterprise storage and real-time database capabilities, today ...

You can add MarkLogic to the growing list of database vendors rushing to embrace the open-source Hadoop programming framework for large-scale data processing. MarkLogic 5, which became generally ...

With a new set of acceleration technologies, DB2 10.5 could replace data warehouses or stand-alone in-memory databases, IBM claims In the update of DB2 released today, IBM has added a set of ...