When your data and work grow, and you still want to produce results in a timely manner, you start to think big. Your one beefy server reaches its limits. You need a way to spread your work across many ...

Hadoop 101: Simplifying MapReduce Development Once the user begins developing MapReduce applications, another set of challenges emerge. Users have to make several design choices which materially ...

Google and its MapReduce framework may rule the roost when it comes to massive-scale data processing, but there’s still plenty of that goodness to go around. This article gets you started with Hadoop, ...

Having worked on Hadoop since day one in 2006, Hortonworks co-founder Arun Murthy is clear about the significance of the latest version of the open-source big-data technology. "Hadoop 2 is a big step.

Data is the new currency of the modern world. Businesses that successfully maximize its value will have a decisive impact on their own value and on their customers’ success. As the de-facto platform ...

When the Big Data moniker is applied to a discussion, it’s often assumed that Hadoop is, or should be, involved. But perhaps that’s just doctrinaire. Hadoop, at its core, consists of HDFS (the Hadoop ...