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, ...

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Today's enterprises are looking to go beyond batch processing and integrate existing applications with Hadoop to realize the benefits of real-time processing and interactive query capabilities.

Hadoop MapReduce has been widely embraced for analyzing large, static data sets. New technology integrates a stand-alone MapReduce engine into an in-memory data grid, enabling real-time analytics on ...

MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of a leading distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, announced the availability of free Hadoop On-Demand Training for developers, analysts and administrators which ...

Hortonworks, a leading contributor to and provider of enterprise Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced the launch of the YARN Ready Program as the latest addition to the Hortonworks Partner Certification ...

The Hadoop programming framework may be synonymous with the “big data” movement but it’s not the only tool companies need to derive insights from massive stores of unstructured information, according ...

Hadoop just gained a new tool. The company Revolution Analytics (RA) modified its package for statistical analysis of Revolution R Enterprise 7 (RRE 7), so that the R language can also be used for ...

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 ...

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 ...