Jeff Hammerbacher says that Facebook tried them all. And none of them did what the web giant needed them to do. Hammerbacher is the Harvard-trained mathematician Facebook hired in 2006. His job was to ...

MapR CMO Jack Norris won’t tell us if an IPO is still in the cards this year for his big data crunching startup. But he had plenty to share about the news his company is making at Strata + Hadoop ...

In fact, there’s a tendency to think about Hadoop as a database, which is easy to understand, given the early conversations about its ability to store large sets of data. But that’s not what Hadoop is ...

The three leaders of the relational database market are responding to the sudden mania for the data processing technology Hadoop in three very different ways. While startups and established data ...

MapR-DB with Hadoop powers real-time, data-driven applications NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–October 15, 2014– MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today ...

Splice Machine says the launch this week of its public beta opens up the Hadoop stack for the first time to a full-featured SQL database, capable of running transactions and analytics simultaneously.

Conventional wisdom holds that as a batch-oriented platform, Hadoop is not well suited for running high-performance analytics applications. This week, however, Actian unveiled the Actian Analytics ...

There are many instances today where the use of traditional databases causes inefficiency and increased workloads. If some of those traditional systems were Hadoop databases instead, users would be a ...

Hadoop’s capabilities now make it possible to stream data into the cluster and analyze it in an interactive fashion—both in real time. Hadoop was purpose-built for cost-effective analysis of data sets ...

RainStor recently released RainStor Database 5.5 that is designed to both increase Big Data security and to simplify searching across massive databases. What RainStor has to say about this release ...

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 ...