Facebook HydraBase adds reliability to Hadoop’s HBase
Facebook's becoming almost as notable for its adventures with open source projects as it is for its social network of more than 1 billion users. The company's latest experiment: revising one of Hadoop's key components to make it more reliable ...
Actian, HP Vertica Join SQL-On-Hadoop Bandwagon
Actian on Tuesday joined the long list of companies that have introduced a way to support SQL access and querying on top of Hadoop. The announcement comes just a week after HP upgraded SQL-on-Hadoop functionality it introduced late last year ...
Can Super-Fast Apache Spark Light Up Hadoop?
it the Hadoop Swiss Army knife of cluster computing frameworks. The Apache Software Foundation just rolled out Apache Spark v1.0, which it's calling a "super-fast, open-source, large-scale Relevant Products/Services data Relevant Products/Services processing and advanced analytics Relevant Products/Services engine."
That's a ...
Hadoop RDBMS Announced
A database that combines Hadoop and traditional relational abilities has been released as a public beta by Splice Machine.
The company says the database provides the scale-out technology of Hadoop, the distributed real-time computing power of the key-value store HBase, and ...
Updated PostgreSQL targets NoSQL market
Embracing the widely used JSON data-exchange format, the new version of the PostgreSQL open-source database takes aim at the growing NoSQL market of nonrelational data stores, notably the popular MongoDB.
The first beta version of PostgreSQL 9.4, released Thursday, includes a ...
Splunk Extends Analysis To NoSQL Databases
Splunk Enterprise gets multisite support, improved visualization. Hunk adds analysis for Accumulo, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Neo4j.
Splunk keeps rolling along, well ahead of an open-source threat that some thought might flatten it. The company last week sprinted ahead yet again, introducing ...
Cascading 3.0 Future-Proofs Data-Centric Application Development on Hadoop
Concurrent, Inc., the company behind Cascading, an open source application development framework for building data applications on Hadoop, has announced Cascading 3.0, which CEO Gary Nakamura says will give enterprises the flexibility to build their data-oriented applications on Hadoop once, and ...
5 Big Data Use Cases To Watch
We hear a lot about big data's ability to deliver usable insights -- but what does this mean exactly?
It's often unclear how enterprises are using big-data technologies beyond proof-of-concept projects. Some of this might be a byproduct of corporate secrecy. ...
5 technologies that will help big data cross the chasm
We’re on the cusp of a real turning point for big data. Its applications are becoming clearer, its tools are getting easier and its architectures are maturing in a hurry. It’s no longer just about log files, clickstreams and tweets. ...
5 tips to get started with big data
Everyone seems to be talking about "big data" these days. Do you wonder what you’re missing out on? Let’s take a look at how you can get started with Big Data.
Learn what it is, and what it is not. While ...