Data analytics and the whole big data phenomenon have been of great interest to me, ever since we started diving deep into our website analytics a few years ago. The power of analytics comes from ...

Marry a big vision and a vibrant open source community and you’ll get something pretty special. In this case we’re talking about delivery on the Stinger initiative, which teamed engineers from Hadoop ...

For some time Microsoft didn’t offer a solution for processing big data in cloud environments. SQL Server is good for storage, but its ability to analyze terabytes of data is limited. Hadoop, which ...

A social platform that saw intense growth in a short period of time has now been forced to pull its servers offline due to a huge security bungle. Reading time 3 minutes Not long after Elon Musk took ...

The underlying programming model for MapReduce has been revamped and has changed quite a bit. Chuck Lam, the author of Hadoop in Action Benefits that keep getting better include high levels of ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

HIVE is not von Neumann because of the sparseness of its data and its ability to simultaneously perform different processes on different areas of memory simultaneously,” Trung said. “This ...

The folks at Hortonworks have been hard at work. Beyond the company's leadership role in YARN, the component that frees Hadoop from the tyranny of batch processing, Hortonworks has been managing a ...

AtScale, a maker of big data reporting tools, has published speed tests on the latest versions of the top four big data SQL engines. Conclusion: Time to upgrade! Today AtScale released its Q4 ...