Relevance of Big Data
In today’s world, where operations are entirely dependent on business intelligence and utilize the platform of information warfare for execution of the same, data has become one of the most vital entities for execution of business and it is very ...
Data Lake Showdown: Object Store or HDFS?
The explosion of data is causing people to rethink their long-term storage strategies. Most agree that distributed systems, one way or another, will be involved. But when it comes down to picking the distributed system–be it a file-based system like ...
4 Considerations When Choosing a Hadoop Distribution
Choosing the right Hadoop distribution can be a tricky process. Many businesses looking to adopt Hadoop in their data infrastructure have a hard time figuring out what really differentiates one distribution from another. With so many options available, it’s easy ...
LinkedIn fills another SQL-on-Hadoop niche
Social networks generate colossal amounts of data that have come to defy the use of conventional data-processing tools, so it's no wonder their engineering teams have built their own toolsets -- such as Facebook and its machine-learning tools.
Enter LinkedIn, now ...
MapR 5.0 Hadoop supports real-time applications
With a focus on real-time applications, MapR Technologies took the wraps off the 5.0 version of its Hadoop distribution.
"Eighteen percent of our customers have 50 or more applications running on a single cluster," says Jack Norris, chief marketing officer ...
Apache Drill 1.0 is Now Generally Available
Today, we are extremely excited and proud to announce the general availability (GA) of Apache Drill 1.0, as part of the MapR Distribution. Congratulations to the Drill community on this significant milestone and achievement!
Incubated in September 2012 as an Apache ...
Apache Parquet paves the way for better Hadoop data storage
Apache Parquet, which provides columnar storage in Hadoop, is now a top-level Apache Software Foundation (ASF)-sponsored project, paving the way for its more advanced use in the Hadoop ecosystem.
Already adopted by Netflix and Twitter, Parquet began in 2013 as a ...
Big Data-As-A-Service Is Next Big Thing
We’ve had software as a service, platform as a service and data as a service. Now, by mixing them all together and massively upscaling the amount of data involved, we’ve arrived at Big Data as a Service (or BDaaS, and ...
19th Annual Nordic & Baltic Telecoms CTO Forum
Maximise Business Opportunities Through Advanced Technologies and Robust Business Strategies
21-22 September 2015
Helsinki, Finland
The 19th Nordic & Baltic Telecoms CTO Forum is comprehensive telecoms event which for two days will become the heart of the regions telecoms industry. Marcus Evans ...
Hadoop update 2.7.0 Released
The Apache Hadoop community is happy to announce the release of Apache Hadoop 2.7.0! We want to express our gratitude to every contributor, reviewer and committer.
The Hadoop community fixed 923 JIRAs in total as part of the 2.7.0 release. Of ...