Wayne Kernochan writes that Hadoop, MapReduce, and NoSQL are not like some IT trends of the past; when it comes to Big Data they matter today and have a major role to play going forward. As it turns ...

The MapReduce paradigm has emerged as a transformative framework for processing vast datasets by decomposing complex tasks into simpler map and reduce functions. This approach has been instrumental in ...

Singapore-based startup, Percipient, has developed a way to sidestep a common Hadoop big data function, thereby shortening query processing time by more than 15 times. Hadoop is an open source ...

Sybase is hoping its IQ analytic database can make its mark in the burgeoning “Big Data” market with an array of new features, including native integration with the open-source MapReduce and Hadoop ...

Google Inc. late last week claimed that results of in-house data-sorting tests bolster its claims that its MapReduce technology can manipulate more data faster than any conventional database.

Some ten years ago, I started writing about what we then called "big data" for ZDNet; in fact, I was the first person at ZDNet focused on it exclusively. Coming from a consulting background in ...