Code submitted this week for inclusion in the Hadoop stack will help speed the spread of the distributed big-data platform, according to Hortonworks co-founder Arun Murthy. The submission of the ...

In a new survey conducted by Syncsort, 250 prominent respondents including data architects, IT managers, developers, business intelligence/data analysts, and data scientists weigh in on big data ...

The new release of Sybase IQ expands support for in-database analytics, including a native MapReduce API, Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) support, integration with Hadoop, and an expanded ...

Hadoop was first conceived as a web search engine for Yahoo!, whose developers were inspired by Google’s now-well known MapReduce paper. It has become the cornerstone of a thriving big data ...

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The demand for job skills related to data processing — NoSQL, Apache Hadoop, Python, and a smattering of other such skills — has hit all-time highs, according to statistics collected by tech job site ...

The new Hadoop is nothing less than the Apache Foundation’s attempt to create a whole new general framework for the way big data can be stored, mined, and processed. It ought to not only further ...

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 ...

In the vast universe of IT, data is categorized as being either structured or unstructured, from a macro perspective. Generation of unstructured data is orders of magnitude higher than that generated ...