It is quite natural for a ground breaking technology to arrive, be celebrated, enable new types of applications, and then to have expectations to grow beyond the technology’s ability to deliver. This ...

Now that MapR has received a load of cash from Google Capital, it is time to ask: What does this latest round of Hadoop funding mean? All three of the major players have gotten large amounts of money ...

You may not realize it, but Hadoop has already been around for 10 years. Even now, with most organizations having in one way or another adopted it, not everything about it is obvious and clear. But ...

This is a guest post by Dell Software executive Guy Harrison Without doubt, “big data” is the hottest topic in enterprise IT since cloud computing came to prominence five years ago. And the most ...

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The use of Hadoop-based open source big-data technology continues to grow among enterprises, and today MapR Technologies, one of the bigger startups in the space, has announced another $50 million in ...

I’m a DBA with a working knowledge of Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL. I have been reading more and more about big data, should I learn Hadoop? First, thank you for emailing your question. The mere ...

Like much ground-breaking IT (such as TCP/IP or Unix), Hadoop wasn’t originally built with the enterprise in mind, let alone enterprise security. Hadoop’s original purpose was to manage publicly ...

Unless a "neutral" third party publishes them, we tend to view benchmarks as self-serving exercises that vendors typically stack in their own favor. But recent benchmarks issued by Cloudera and ...

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