What is Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)? The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is the primary data storage system Hadoop applications use. It's an open source distributed processing ...

The Hadoop Distributed File System has a growing list of storage management features and functions that are consistent with persisting data, but many enterprises find the technology falls short in ...

As a poster child for big data, Hadoop is continually brought out as the reference architecture for big data analytics. But what exactly is Hadoop and what are the key points of Hadoop storage ...

What are some of the cool things in the 2.0 release of Hadoop? To start, how about a revamped MapReduce? And what would you think of a high availability (HA) implementation of the Hadoop Distributed ...

While Hadoop is officially 15 years old as an Apache project, it only gained mainstream IT attention 10 years ago. Hadoop started as an open source implementation of key Google technologies used for ...

Have you ever wondered how Google, Facebook and other Internet giants process their massive workloads? Billions of requests are served every day by the biggest players on the Internet, resulting in ...

Did you know that 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone? With such an overwhelming influx of information, businesses are constantly seeking efficient ways to manage and ...

Storing data in Hadoop generally means a choice between HDFS and Apache HBase. The former is great for high-speed writes and scans; the latter is ideal for random-access queries — but you can’t get ...

Here's a look at different ways to query Hadoop via SQL, some of which are part of the latest edition of MapR's Hadoop distribution SQL: old and busted. Hadoop: new hotness. That’s the conventional ...

First off, in case you're wondering, it's all Cloudera from now on. That's the name the new company will go by, and there's a new-ish logo and branding to go with this too. DataWorks historically was ...