SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwired - Nov 18, 2013) - Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced a new "Big Data" framework that gives Cray customers the ability to more easily ...

Adopted by Internet luminaries, big data framework Hadoop has skyrocketed to popularity; a nice kid that nobody wanted to say anything negative about. However, now that technology is not quite as new ...

When Doug Cutting created the open-source Hadoop framework while working at Yahoo! Inc. in 2006, he didn’t imagine his invention would spawn an ecosystem of breathtaking scope and complexity. The ...

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Google and its MapReduce framework may rule the roost when it comes to massive-scale data processing, but there’s still plenty of that goodness to go around. This article gets you started with Hadoop, ...

If data is the oil of the 21st century, then those who have a knowledge of Hadoop are bound to strike it big. Not only does this open source software library store massive data sets with ease, it also ...

The Apache Software Foundation unveiled its latest release of its open source data processing program, Hadoop 2. It runs multiple applications simultaneously to enable users to quickly and efficiently ...

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 ...

Back in the 1800s John Godfrey Saxe wrote a famous poem about six blind men trying to discover what an elephant is by touching a part and describing it. Saxe observes that, “each was partly in the ...