Hadoop was named after a toy elephant, sounds like a Dr. Seuss character, and it's the hottest thing in big-data technology. It's a software framework that makes short work of a tall task—managing ...

While Hadoop is officially 15 years old as an Apache project, it only gained mainstream IT attention 10 years ago. Hadoop started as an open source implementation of key Google technologies used for ...

I've been hearing the term "Hadoop" everywhere. I asked my colleague David White, ARC's analytics expert, what it was and whether it was something that supply chain executives needed to know about.

The focus of Trifacta is enabling people who know their data best (analysts & business people) to effectively explore, structure, and join together diverse data sources for a variety of business ...

Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop are both popular, open-source data science tools offered by the Apache Software Foundation. Developed and supported by the community, they continue to grow in popularity ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. This article dives into the happens-before semantics of Go channels, explaining how they relate to memory ...

Intel has launched its own Hadoop distribution, entering an already crowded market of major players all looking to get a piece of the big data pie. The company also announced an open-source effort to ...

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Have you ever wonder where this thing called Hadoop came from, or even why it’s here? Marko Bonaci has wondered such things, too. In fact, he wondered about them so much that he decided to write a ...

For the past week, unknown groups of cyber-criminals have taken control of and wiped data from CouchDB and Hadoop databases, in some cases asking for a ransom fee to return the stolen files, but in ...