Did you know that 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone? With such an overwhelming influx of information, businesses are constantly seeking efficient ways to manage and ...

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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 ...

With the new release of its Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has radically expanded the set of supporting tools for the data processing framework. “What we saw was that most organizations deploy quite a ...

Some myths are rooted in truth—and myths about Apache Hadoop, the open source software framework for very large data sets, are no exception. Yes, Hadoop runs on cheap commodity computer hardware, and ...

Sensing a growing interest in big data-style analysis, software provider Revolution Analytics has updated its flagship package of R statistical functions so it can be run with the Hadoop data ...

Big data analytics is one of the major trends every company is told it must jump on for competitive advantage, even survival. As a result, there’s a lot of mythology around big data. Those myths can ...

Music-streaming service Spotify says shifting to Hortonworks' distribution of big-data platform Hadoop will help it advance the analytics behind personalising user services and providing data to ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive — and constantly growing — datasets.