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, ...

Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. You'll hear it mentioned often, along with associated technologies such as Hive and Pig. But what does it do, and ...

In what appears to be a change in direction, Hortonworks has released a completely open source Hadoop distribution based on Apache Hadoop that will compete head-on with Cloudera’s CDH3. The new ...