Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. You'll hear it mentioned often, along with associated technologies such as Hive and Pig. But what does it do, and ...

Hive's SQL-like query language and vastly improved speed on huge data sets make it the perfect partner for an enterprise data warehouse Apache Hive is a tool built on top of Hadoop for analyzing large ...

Over at Data Informed, David Loshin writes that designing, developing, and deploying analytic applications involves much more than just downloading open source software and still requires some skill ...

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eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

For some time Microsoft didn’t offer a solution for processing big data in cloud environments. SQL Server is good for storage, but its ability to analyze terabytes of data is limited. Hadoop, which ...

Hadoop training courses and certification programs are available from companies including Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM and MapR. But if you’re not ready to commit to formal training courses, there are ...

The forthcoming Hadoop release, likely to be dubbed version 0.23, will also get improvements in availability, performance, and scalability Relief is on the way for users of the open source Apache ...

As news continues to break out of this week's Hadoop Summit, Teradata Aster is announcing a partnership with Hortonworks resulting in a new technology feature called SQL-H. SQL-H tightly binds the ...