Hadoop firm Hortonworks has been busy. After its IPO in December, and the controversy of creating the Open Data Platform with the likes of Pivotal and IBM, it's just announced a new acquisition, and ...

Hortonworks says the latest version of its Hadoop platform will allow users to extract information from petabyte-scale datasets far more rapidly and simply. Hortonworks Data Platform 2.2, due for ...

Marking its 10th anniversary this year, Hadoop has evolved from a platform for batch processing large data sets to a robust ecosystem of next-generation technologies aimed at solving a myriad of ...

Since its early beginnings as a project aimed at building a better web search engine for Yahoo — inspired by Google’s now-well-known MapReduce paper — Hadoop has grown to occupy the center of the big ...