Apache Hadoop Hadoop is an open source implementation of the MapReduce programming model. Hadoop relies not on Google File System (GFS), but on its own Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).

Sensing a growing interest in big data-style analysis, software provider Revolution Analytics has updated its flagship package of R statistical functions so it can be run with the Hadoop data ...

Sensing a growing interest in big data-style analysis, software provider Revolution Analytics has updated its flagship package of R statistical functions so it can be run with the Hadoop data ...

Hadoop rises and becomes stronger with native R programming support - SiliconANGLEAccording to Revolution Analytics, by analyzing the data within the node in which it resides, rather than moving ...

Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. But what does it do, and why do you need all its strangely-named friends, such as Oozie, Zookeeper and Flume?

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 ...

A Microsoft roadmap slide sheds some additional details on the scope of the work the company is doing to integrate Hadoop with Windows Azure and Windows Server.

Fresh off of its Wall Street debut, open-source Hadoop purveyor Hortonworks has extended its technology partner program with the addition of three new certifications. The Palo Alto-based company ...

BURLINGAME, Calif. — In the span of just a couple of years, Hadoop, a free software program named after a toy elephant, has taken over some of the world’s biggest Web sites. It controls the ...

BURLINGAME, Calif. — In the span of just a couple of years, Hadoop, a free software program named after a toy elephant, has taken over some of the world’s biggest Web sites. It controls the top search ...