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Scheduling means different things depending on the audience. To many in the business world, scheduling is synonymous with workflow management. Workflow management is the coordinated execution of a ...

The Strata+Hadoop World 2015 conference in New York this week was subtitled “Make Data Work,” but given how Hadoop world’s has evolved over the past year (even over the past six months) another apt ...

One question I get asked a lot by my clients is: Should we go for Hadoop or Spark as our big data framework? Spark has overtaken Hadoop as the most active open source Big Data project. While they are ...

Yesterday during his keynote at HadoopWorld 2011, Apache Hadoop creator and Cloudera employee Doug Cutting announced that the next version of Cloudera’s Distribution Including Hadoop (CDH4) will be ...

It has been nearly six years since I attended my first Hadoop World conference in 2009, and, oh my, how the platform has progressed. What I'm most excited about, as Strata-Hadoop World 2015 approaches ...

A lot has been made of Hadoop becoming the singular control point for analytics, effectively usurping the enterprise data warehouse (EDW). The recent quest to integrate SQL into Hadoop is an example ...

We still don’t have any official details, but we do have a leaked slide. Microsoft’s Hadoop Although NoSQL and its biggest celebrity, Hadoop, are deeply rooted in open source, commercial behemoths ...

Microsoft's getting into the Hadoop game, and people are skeptical. Can Microsoft really embrace open source technology? And if it can, will it end up co-opting it somehow, or will it truly play nice?

Those who want to try the much-hyped Hadoop but haven’t got a cluster or two to spare can now test the data processing platform on their desktops, thanks to a new release from Hadoop distributor ...