Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. You'll hear it mentioned often, along with associated technologies such as Hive and Pig. But what does it do, and ...

Hive's SQL-like query language and vastly improved speed on huge data sets make it the perfect partner for an enterprise data warehouse Apache Hive is a tool built on top of Hadoop for analyzing large ...

Relief is on the way for users of the open source Apache Hadoop distributed computing platform who have wrestled with the complexity of the technology. A planned upgrade to Hadoop distributed ...

The underlying programming model for MapReduce has been revamped and has changed quite a bit. Chuck Lam, the author of Hadoop in Action Benefits that keep getting better include high levels of ...

Hadoop training courses and certification programs are available from companies including Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM and MapR. But if you’re not ready to commit to formal training courses, there are ...

Hortonworks Inc. yesterday announced a new version of Apache Hive, the open source data warehouse software running on top of Hadoop, with new SQL query features and performance improvements. Hive, ...

Hapyrus has launched FlyData, technology that enables it to automatically upload and migrate data to Amazon Redshift, the data-warehouse service that can scale to petabyte size. Amazon has claimed ...

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 ...

Microsoft's getting into the Hadoop game, and people are skeptical. Can Microsoft really embrace open source technology? And if it can, will it end up co-opting it somehow, or will it truly play nice?

The forthcoming Hadoop release, likely to be dubbed version 0.23, will also get improvements in availability, performance, and scalability Relief is on the way for users of the open source Apache ...