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 ...

The creator of the Hadoop platform, Doug Cutting, is surprised Hadoop didn't have to battle it out with more competitors in its early years but thinks it's now too late for a competitor to take on the ...

When it comes to making a large investment to adopt a new technology like Hadoop, eventually the CEO must be presented with the pros and cons and approve the expense. Most CEOs start with a skeptical ...

True to its iconic logo, Hadoop is still very much the elephant in the room. Most every data scientist has heard of it, yet relatively few can say they have a firm grasp on what the technology can do ...

Big on Data bro Andrew Brust's recent post on the spring cleaning of Hadoop projects evidently touched a nerve, given the readership numbers that went off the charts. By now, the Apache Hadoop family ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Olivia McVicker, a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft about AI-driven ...

Remember how, just a decade ago, Hadoop was the cure to all the world’s large-scale enterprise IT problems? And how companies like Cloudera dominated the scene, swallowing competitors including ...

While the term ‘big data’ may feel old to us now, the concept remains relatively new. Hadoop helped popularize and simplify this analytical use of data in 2010, and since then the technology and ...

With the Hadoop Summit taking place this week in San Jose, California, vendors supporting the open-source data-analysis platform are rushing new products to market. Over 2,100 attendees are expected ...

The Swedish music streaming services is using a ‘data lake’ based on the Hortonworks distribution of Hadoop to calculate royalties, recommend tracks to users and measure audience response to new ...