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The Benefits of a Hadoop Distribution

by Angela Guess David Loshin recently wrote in Search Data Management, “Many companies are struggling to manage the massive amounts of data they collect. Whereas in the past they may have used a data warehouse platform, such conventional architectures can fall short for dealing with data originating from numerous internal and external sources and often […]

Spark is Catching Up to Hadoop

by Angela Guess Sooraj Shah reports in Computing, “Hadoop and Spark are leading the way as the primary big data processing platforms for organisations in the UK, according to research from Computing. More than 500 people who work in IT responded to a nationwide online quantitative study among companies that have 100 or more employees […]

Apache Spark Continues to Gain Popularity

by Angela Guess Brian Taylor reports in TechRepublic, “Apache Spark continues to attract attention in the big data world, where it’s expected to help drive the next wave of innovation. A survey on Hadoop from big data company Syncsort showed that 70% of survey participants are most interested in Spark, higher even than MapReduce, the […]

Hadoop Turns 10

by Angela Guess Andrew Brust reports on ZDnet, “It’s hard to believe, but it’s true. The Apache Hadoop project, the open source implementation of Google’s File System (GFS) and MapReduce execution engine, turned 10 this week. The technology, originally part of Apache Nutch, an even older open source project for Web crawling, was separated out […]