With just over a week left on the 2019 calendar, it’s now time for predictions. We’ll run several stories featuring the 2020 predictions of industry experts and observers in the field. It […]
Big Data Predictions: What 2020 Will Bring
With just over a week left on the 2019 calendar, it’s now time for predictions. We’ll run several stories featuring the 2020 predictions of industry experts and observers in the field. It […]
2019: A Big Data Year in Review – Part Two
In part one of this series, we covered some of the biggest news events of the year to cross Datanami’s pages. We pick up where we left off and bring you up […]
Big Data From B to A: The Hadoop Distributed Filesystem — HDFS
As data is significantly growing, storing large amounts of information across a network of machines becomes a necessity. Therefore, comes the need for a reliable system, called distributed filesystems, to control how […]
Re-Imagining Big Data in a Post-Hadoop World
In the big data battle for architectural supremacy, the cloud is clearly winning and Hadoop is clearly losing. Customers are shying away from investing in monolithic Hadoop clusters in favor of more […]
Big Data In Little Spaces: Hadoop And Spark At The Edge
The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. A reasonable estimate would put the technology on […]
Microsoft Expands Hadoop on Azure
Microsoft has upgraded its open source analytics services running on Azure with a new version of Hadoop incorporating enhancements of Apache Hive and other open source analytics frameworks. The software giant (NASDAQ: […]
Splunk Analytics for Hadoop: Service Overview and Insight
Bottom Line: Splunk quite literally changed the way that many IT organizations look at log files. Its core namesake platform that enables companies of any size to make sense of their data […]
Here’s What Doug Cutting Says Is Hadoop’s Biggest Contribution
Apache Hadoop isn’t the center of attention in the IT world anymore, and much of the hype has dissipated (or at least regrouped behind AI). But the open source software project still […]
AI Hype Rockets, Hadoop Twins, and Other Learnings from Strata
Strange similarities have been discovered to exist between Cloudera and Hortonworks now that the two former Hadoop rivals have merged into a single company. In fact, the resemblances are so great that […]