Data science is an interdisciplinary sphere of study that has gained traction over the years, given the sheer amount of data we produce on a daily basis — projected to be over 2.5 quintillion bytes of ...

Interest in Apache Spark surpassed Apache Hadoop for the first time last month, according to Google Trends. While it’s not a definitive statement of Spark’s actual impact on big data processing in the ...

The Apache Software Foundation has released the first production version of Hadoop, the scalable, distributed computing software framework. Hadoop connects thousands of servers to process big data for ...

Hadoop is a popular open-source distributed storage and processing framework. This primer about the framework covers commercial solutions, Hadoop on the public cloud, and why it matters for business.

Ten years ago, on Jan. 28, 2006, Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella split the distributed file system and MapReduce facility from their open source Web crawler project (Apache Nutch) and spun it off as a ...

RainStor recently released RainStor Database 5.5 that is designed to both increase Big Data security and to simplify searching across massive databases. What RainStor has to say about this release ...

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 ...

A new report released today by researchers at cloud-native security company Aqua Security Software Ltd. warns of a new attack targeting Apache Hadoop and Flink applications. The attack is described as ...