Data science is an interdisciplinary sphere of study that has gained traction over the years, given the sheer amount of data we produce on a daily basis — projected to be over 2.5 quintillion bytes of ...

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Seeking to help standardize and simplify Hadoop adoption, Pivotal made three key announcements. First, the company is open sourcing components of its Big Data Suite, including Pivotal HD, HAWQ, ...

In what appears to be a change in direction, Hortonworks has released a completely open source Hadoop distribution based on Apache Hadoop that will compete head-on with Cloudera’s CDH3. The new ...

The merger of Hortonworks and Cloudera will eliminate competition in the market for big data platforms and create a clear leader in the space. Once the transaction is complete, the new Cloudera will ...

Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. You'll hear it mentioned often, along with associated technologies such as Hive and Pig. But what does it do, and ...

MapR has introduced native security authentication and authorization for the MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop. MapR’s security enhancments are aimed at enabling businesses to secure all of the ...

The massive drop in memory prices that is leading Hadoop adopters to abandon the disk-oriented MapReduce has now finally caught up to the storage component of the framework as well with the ...

As news continues to break out of this week's Hadoop Summit, Teradata Aster is announcing a partnership with Hortonworks resulting in a new technology feature called SQL-H. SQL-H tightly binds the ...

At the end of the first Toy Story movie, all of the toys terrorize a bullying kid who is in the habit of destroying toys. Woody, the leader, explains that the toys broke “the rules” in showing the kid ...