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 ...

Hadoop, an open source framework that enables distributed computing, has changed the way we deal with big data. Parallel processing with this set of tools can improve performance several times over.

In a world of real-time data, why are we still so fixated on Hadoop? Hadoop, architected around batch processing, remains the poster child for big data, though its outsized reputation still outpaces ...

Hadoop introduced a new way to simplify the analysis of large data sets, and in a very short time reshaped the big data market. In fact, today Hadoop is often synonymous with the term big data. Since ...

The fall of MapR caused a rush to judgement about the future of Hadoop. To understand what this means for data initiatives, the viability of Hadoop and data lakes must be separately examined. Data ...

Isotopes, co-founded by Arun Murthy, launched a sophisticated analytics agent. Arun was one of the creators of Hadoop who ...

Srinivasa Sridhar Kavikondala is a seasoned technical architect specializing in data warehousing and cloud solutions, based ...

Hadoop may have fizzled out as a data platform, but it laid the groundwork for an open data architecture that continues to grow and evolve today, largely in the cloud. We got a peek at the future of ...

One feature of the big data revolution is the acknowledgement that a single database management system architecture cannot meet all needs. For instance, if you need a system that can reliably process ...