Many small and medium sized businesses would like to get in on the big data game but do not have the resources to implement parallel database management systems. That being the case, which relational ...

Google introduced the MapReduce algorithm to perform massively parallel processing of very large data sets using clusters of commodity hardware. MapReduce is a core Google technology and key to ...

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 ...

Watching this evolution in volume (and the accompanying “V’s” in the large scale data equation) got Thusoo and his team at Facebook thinking about accessibility and usability. After all, what good was ...

Hadoop is the most significant concrete technology behind the so called “Big Data” revolution. Hadoop combines an economical model for storing massive quantities of data – the Hadoop Distributed File ...

Move over Hive. Facebook this week contributed Presto, its new in-memory distributed query engine that is up to 10 times faster than Hive, into the open source realm. With Presto, the social media ...