Apache Spark is the tech du jour in Big Data right now. Its ability to provide speedy performance against huge volumes of data has made such a splash that some people are even beginning to question ...

As a platform for doing analytics on large datasets that is much less costly than would be possible with parallel data warehouses, Hadoop and its myriad extensions and modified underpinnings has ...

NextBio and Intel inked a collaboration aimed at advancing the use of Big Data technologies in genomics, including optimizing and stabilizing the Hadoop stack. The two firms will apply the experience ...

Today, DataStax released Brisk, an open-source Hadoop distribution that adds real-time features and reduces the complexity with deploying and running Hadoop and Hive. Apache Cassandra powers Brisk; ...

Over the past two weeks, we’ve explored some of the difficulties that enterprises have experienced in trying to adopt the Hadoop stack of big data technologies. One area that demands further attention ...