The Hadoop Ecosystem: HDFS, Yarn, Hive, Pig, HBase and growing

Hadoop is the leading open-source software framework developed for scalable, reliable and distributed computing. With the world producing data in the zettabyte range there is a growing need for cheap, scalable, reliable and fast computing to process and make sense ...

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 ...