At the center of the new big data movement is the Hadoop framework, which provides an efficient file system and related ecosystem of solutions to store and analyze big datasets. The Hadoop ecosystem ...

Back in the early 1990s, you would sometimes hear this gag: “Two major products that came out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence.” Although wildly inaccurate, this ...

ANAHEIM, Calif., Oct. 19 — Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the big data analytics and marketing applications company, today announced two new breakthrough software capabilities that empower business users to ...

Microsoft quietly made available this week a new family of R Server data-analytics products. Thanks to a tweet from Tero Alhonen, I found listings on MSDN for a family of new Microsoft R Server ...

Wayne State University in Michigan has implemented a big data analytics system to improve its reporting system for student data and finances. Previously, when staff wanted to create a new report, they ...

If 2014 was the year that Apache Hadoop sparked the big data revolution, 2015 may be the year that Apache Spark supplants Hadoop with its superior capabilities for richer and more timely analysis.

One question I get asked a lot by my clients is: Should we go for Hadoop or Spark as our big data framework? Spark has overtaken Hadoop as the most active open source Big Data project. While they are ...

When you start a revolution, you need to go public before the next revolution starts. Hadoop used to be the “revolutionary” technology behind the “big data” revolution but it has now been buried deep ...

The Hungarian firm Radoop today unveiled the second version of its eponymous product, which integrates Rapid Miner’s data mining and predictive analytic tools atop Apache Hadoop. Radoop 2.0 brings ...

The rise of Hadoop has created new oceans of data to explore, and Oracle has a new software product that’s designed to help. Called Oracle Big Data Spatial and Graph, it brings new analytic ...

Disclosure: Our goal is to feature products and services that we think you'll find interesting and useful. If you purchase them, Entrepreneur may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from ...