Hadoop is big and getting bigger. One recent estimate says that Hadoop currently had a market worth $1.5 billion dollars in 2012, and is projecting a compound annual growth rate of 54.7% between 2012 ...

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 ...

What are some of the cool things in the 2.0 release of Hadoop? To start, how about a revamped MapReduce? And what would you think of a high availability (HA) implementation of the Hadoop Distributed ...

Hadoop is a big data analysis tool. Hadoop makes it possible to manage and store the processing and storage of big data with open source, Java-based software. The Hadoop platform enables parallel ...