Many organizations use Hadoop to gain competitive advantage, but because of the very nature of distributed systems, there are inherent performance limitations that even the most advanced Hadoop users ...

High performance computer system vendor SGI plans to offer pre-built clusters running the Apache Hadoop data analysis platform, the company announced Monday. SGI Hadoop Clusters will run fully ...

Recent technology advances within the Apache Hadoop ecosystem have provided a big boost to Hadoop’s viability as an in-cluster analytics environment—above and beyond just being a good place to store ...

As the world’s largest social network, Facebook accumulates more data in a single day than many good size companies generate in a year. Facebook stores much of the data on its massive Hadoop cluster, ...

Apache Spark brings high-speed, in-memory analytics to Hadoop clusters, crunching large-scale data sets in minutes instead of hours Apache Spark got its start in 2009 at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab as a way ...