Today marks the 10th birthday of sorts for Apache Hadoop, as the first Hadoop cluster was put into production at Yahoo on Jan. 28, 2006. Since then, it has gone on to spawn the "Big Data" craze and ...

When it comes to making a large investment to adopt a new technology like Hadoop, eventually the CEO must be presented with the pros and cons and approve the expense. Most CEOs start with a skeptical ...

Hadoop was named after a toy elephant, sounds like a Dr. Seuss character, and it's the hottest thing in big-data technology. It's a software framework that makes short work of a tall task—managing ...

Want to understand the type of systems global businesses will be using in five years? Look at the technology used by Google today. Enterprise has a history of riding in Google’s slipstream. It was in ...

Big on Data bro Andrew Brust's recent post on the spring cleaning of Hadoop projects evidently touched a nerve, given the readership numbers that went off the charts. By now, the Apache Hadoop family ...

Hadoop is almost at the same price point as it would have been for the old archive technology, but Hadoop is a data processing platform whereas tape isn’t. Hadoop gets you best of both worlds, and ...

Jeff Hammerbacher says that Facebook tried them all. And none of them did what the web giant needed them to do. Hammerbacher is the Harvard-trained mathematician Facebook hired in 2006. His job was to ...

When you're creating a new way of storing and processing data for global business infrastructure, a little fun can go a long way toward relieving the pressure. No one knows that better than Doug ...

Five years ago, Hadoop came roaring into the mainstream as the solutions to all big data problems. Now that reality has settled in, it's time for a more realistic assessment We are now dead-center in ...

This is a comprehensive Apache Hadoop and Spark comparison, covering their differences, features, benefits, and use cases. Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop are both popular, open-source data science ...