Supreet Oberoi is the vice president of field engineering, Concurrent, Inc. I’m often asked which Hadoop tools are “best.” The answer, of course, is that it depends, and what it depends on is the ...

One of the popular, and a bit surprising, use cases for Hadoop is to speed up batch processing jobs. More companies, particularly retailers, use Hadoop basically as an ETL (extract, transform and load ...

Startup AtScale is coming out of stealth mode today, revealing its plan to make data stored in the open source Hadoop file system accessible to people inside of companies, through popular business ...

One big disadvantage that comes with a hybrid cloud strategy is forcing your developers to learn and understand the different techniques required by cloud providers and on-premises software vendors ...

SQL is, arguably, the biggest workload many organizations run on their Hadoop clusters. And there’s good reason why: The combination of a familiar interface (SQL) along with a modern computing ...

Anticipating greater Apache Hadoop use in production environments, Cloudera has outfitted its commercial distribution of the data processing framework with additional configuration and management ...

For the first production release of what will be its flagship Apache Hadoop distribution, Hortonworks has focused on providing a set of tools to help deploy, manage, and extend the data analysis ...

As more companies adopt Hadoop, they need help getting their data onto the platform -- and a new field is born Hadoop’s explosion over the last few years has been phenomenal. One estimate puts its ...

Version 3.5 of the Cloudera Enterprise edition has new modules for configuration and process monitoring Anticipating greater Apache Hadoop use in production environments, Cloudera has outfitted its ...

Anticipating greater Apache Hadoop use in production environments, Cloudera has outfitted its commercial distribution of the data processing framework with additional configuration and management ...