Apache Spark is a project designed to accelerate Hadoop and other big data applications through the use of an in-memory, clustered data engine. The Apache Foundation describes the Spark project this ...

Hadoop has become an extremely big name here at SiliconANGLE, being one of the premiere open source cloud-storage and -computing projects. If you’re a Java developer and you haven’t had a chance to ...

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 ...

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.

It's hard to believe, but it's true. The Apache Hadoop project, the open source implementation of Google's File System (GFS) and MapReduce execution engine, turned 10 this week. The technology, ...

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 ...

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, ...

The upcoming delivery of Apache Hadoop 3 later this year will bring big changes to how customers store and process data on clusters. Here at the annual Apache Big Data show in Miami, Florida, a pair ...

Ten years ago, on Jan. 28, 2006, Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella split the distributed file system and MapReduce facility from their open source Web crawler project (Apache Nutch) and spun it off as a ...

Next week the SiliconAngle team is heading to the HadoopWorld event in New York City. We’ll be broadcasting theCube live and covering all the latest developments in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. But it ...