One of the great things about Hadoop is that it’s open source, which allows developers of all stripes to lash their code to the beast and give it a whirl. One of the big data software startups riding ...

The three leaders of the relational database market are responding to the sudden mania for the data processing technology Hadoop in three very different ways. While startups and established data ...

Recognizing that Hadoop and SQL database technology need to be joined at the hip in the enterprise, EMC Greenplum today announced Pivotal HD, an implementation of the company’s massively parallel ...

Drawn to Scale has entered into a partnership with MapR Technologies Inc. to provide real time Hadoop databases to its customers. With this real time SQL technology, mobile and interactive web ...

Jeff Hammerbacher says that Facebook tried them all. And none of them did what the web giant needed them to do. Hammerbacher is the Harvard-trained mathematician Facebook hired in 2006. His job was to ...

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 ...

Yale University researchers on Monday released an open-source parallel database that they say combines the data-crunching prowess of a relational database with the scalability of next-generation ...

MapR CMO Jack Norris won’t tell us if an IPO is still in the cards this year for his big data crunching startup. But he had plenty to share about the news his company is making at Strata + Hadoop ...

The open source Hadoop framework is ideal for distributed processing of large data sets across large numbers of severs. What it isn’t good at is speed. Actian Corp., which makes a number of ...