When your data and work grow, and you still want to produce results in a timely manner, you start to think big. Your one beefy server reaches its limits. You need a way to spread your work across many ...

Google and its MapReduce framework may rule the roost when it comes to massive-scale data processing, but there’s still plenty of that goodness to go around. This article gets you started with Hadoop, ...

What are some of the cool things in the 2.0 release of Hadoop? To start, how about a revamped MapReduce? And what would you think of a high availability (HA) implementation of the Hadoop Distributed ...

Data is the new currency of the modern world. Businesses that successfully maximize its value will have a decisive impact on their own value and on their customers’ success. As the de-facto platform ...

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 ...

Hadoop is a popular open-source distributed storage and processing framework. This primer about the framework covers commercial solutions, Hadoop on the public cloud, and why it matters for business.