Hadoop has been widely embraced for its ability to economically store and analyze large data sets. Using parallel computing techniques like MapReduce, Hadoop can reduce long computation times to hours ...

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HP Vertica is all about transformative technologies, new use applications, the evolution of its platform, signaling changes including a decline in relevance for MapReduce in the Big Data marketplace, ...

With the latest update to its Apache Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has provided the possibility of using data processing algorithms beyond the customary MapReduce, the company announced Tuesday.

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The next generation of Apache Hadoop, the software implementation that allows batch processing of petabytes of data, is expected out this year, says a Yahoo executive. Todd Papaioannou, vice president ...

What are some of the cool things in the 2.0 release of Hadoop? To start, how about a revamped MapReduce? And what would you think of a high availability (HA) implementation of the Hadoop Distributed ...

Hadoop MapReduce has been widely embraced for analyzing large, static data sets. New technology integrates a stand-alone MapReduce engine into an in-memory data grid, enabling real-time analytics on ...