Recognizing that Hadoop and SQL database technology need to be joined at the hip in the enterprise, EMC Greenplum today announced Pivotal HD, an implementation of the company’s massively parallel ...

It’s in the nature of hype bubbles to obscure important new paradigms behind a cloud of excitement and exaggerated claims. For example, the phrase “big data” has been so widely and poorly applied that ...

There are many instances today where the use of traditional databases causes inefficiency and increased workloads. If some of those traditional systems were Hadoop databases instead, users would be a ...

Today, organizations are struggling to achieve real-time integration between MySQL/MariaDB and Hadoop, and Oracle and Hadoop. Fast decision-making depends on real-time data movement that allows ...

Hadoop’s capabilities now make it possible to stream data into the cluster and analyze it in an interactive fashion—both in real time. Hadoop was purpose-built for cost-effective analysis of data sets ...

MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of a leading distribution for Apache™ Hadoop® that integrates web-scale enterprise storage and real-time database capabilities, today announced at Strata + Hadoop ...

You can add MarkLogic to the growing list of database vendors rushing to embrace the open-source Hadoop programming framework for large-scale data processing. MarkLogic 5, which became generally ...

Building on the apparent success of its Cloud Foundry PaaS project, EMC and VMware spinoff Pivotal today unveiled backers for a new initiative, aimed at defining a core set of Apache technologies to ...

MapR Technologies is pursuing a unique strategy in the world of Big Data technology. Instead of focusing on offering a pure open source distribution like Hortonworks, or on adding additional ...

North America holds the largest share of the Hadoop market, driven by the presence of major companies and widespread adoption of Hadoop applications. The Asia Pacific region is poised to witness the ...