The numbers look promising: IDC forecasts the worldwide revenues for big data and business analytics will reach $150.8 billion in 2017, an increase of 12.4% compared with the 2016 sales. However, big ...

It’s in the nature of hype bubbles to obscure important new paradigms behind a cloud of excitement and exaggerated claims. For example, the phrase “big data” has been so widely and poorly applied that ...

The MapR Converged Data Platform supports big data storage and processing through the Apache collection of Hadoop products, as well as its added-value components. These components from MapR ...

The floods that devastated the hard disk industry in Thailand are now half a year old, and the prices per terabyte are finally dropping once again. That means data will start piling up and people ...

One question I get asked a lot by my clients is: Should we go for Hadoop or Spark as our big data framework? Spark has overtaken Hadoop as the most active open source Big Data project. While they are ...

Apache Hadoop has come a long way since the first Hadoop Summit took place in 2007. From its humble origins as a promising open-source framework for managing data-intensive distributed applications, ...

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Managing prodigious volumes of data is not only challenging from a technological standpoint, it's often expensive as well. Apache Hadoop is a data management system adept at bring data processing and ...

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