When it emerged from stealth in 2011, MapR was an outlier in the Hadoop community. At the time, Hadoop was defined largely by two projects adapted from Google research: MapReduce, which introduced ...

Cloud computing is a new technology which comes from distributed computing, parallel computing, grid computing and other computing technologies. In cloud computing, the data storage and computing are ...

HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) is a distributed user level file system which stores, processes, retrieves and manages data in a Hadoop cluster. HDFS infrastructure that Hadoop provides, include ...

Hadoop accomplishes this by applying more efficient formats and file systems to large datasets that would normally have been out of the reach of standard analytics solutions. For more articles on this ...

Gluster, a provider of open source storage solutions, has just released a version of its storage system that includes support for Apache Hadoop. GlusterFS 3.3 beta 2 employs standard file system APIs ...

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As cloud computing edges its way into the enterprise, the open-source Apache Hadoop project may well prove to be the poster child of the movement. Hadoop effectively gives enterprises the power of ...

Yahoo spinoff company Hortonworks has released a preview edition of what will be a fully open source distribution of the Apache Hadoop data analysis platform, called the Hortonworks Data Platform, the ...

IT pros have been managing batch processes since mainframe jobs were run on Hollerith cards -- prompting a reliance on system automation software. So it's no surprise that batch processing of Hadoop ...