The market for Hadoop and related products is one of the most active in all of enterprise software. I’ve developed a simple framework that can help quickly explain the differences in the way Hadoop ...

When your data and work grow, and you still want to produce results in a timely manner, you start to think big. Your one beefy server reaches its limits. You need a way to spread your work across many ...

Hadoop is not what it used to be, and we mean this in a good way. If we were to speak in hype cycle terms, we would say sometime in the past few years Hadoop exited the peak of inflated expectations ...

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Hadoop isn’t living up to its hype -- which means that both Hadoop vendors and their customers need to widen their array of big data technologies Hadoop makes all the big data noise. Too bad it’s not ...