For businesses that want to run analytics on low-cost Hadoop clusters, fully compliant SQL is now possible natively on the big data platform, according to Actian.

Many of these skills are related to the key big data technology components, such as Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL databases, in-memory databases, and analytics software.

Hadoop was first conceived as a web search engine for Yahoo!, whose developers were inspired by Google’s now-well known MapReduce paper. It has become the cornerstone of a thriving big data ...

Hadoop Big Data Analytics Industry Overview The Hadoop Big Data Analytics Market presents a moderately competitive landscape, with a few key players currently controlling the market share.

The Global Hadoop Big Data Analytics Market is poised to grow strong during the forecast period 2017 to 2027.

Fortunately, there are alternatives to Hadoop when it comes to big data projects. While not applicable to all situations, I've found that a Hadoop alternative can save time, money and slash risk.

The Thing About Hadoop and Spark Before any discussion of Hadoop and Spark at the edge can begin, there is an important point to be made about scalable analytics tools. Often time’s market hype is ...

When enterprises interested in leveraging big data and analytics ask how to get started, they often are advised to begin with Hadoop, Apache Software's open source data storage and processing ...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is bringing Hadoop to the Windows Azure cloud. The popular big-data analytics framework is now available on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. On the one hand, it's great to ...

The Hadoop programming framework may be synonymous with the "big data" movement but it's not the only tool companies need to derive insights from massive stores of unstructured information ...