Continuing its drive to bring the batch-oriented Hadoop Big Data platform into the real-time world, MapR technologies, Inc. today is announcing a host of new features designed to support on-the-fly ...

Real-time processing of streaming data in Hadoop typically comes down to choosing between two projects: Storm or Spark. But a third contender, which has been open-sourced from a formerly ...

Big Data is certainly on a lot of people’s lips these days. There is no doubt that we are certainly generating lots of data. Analyzing that data and making it useful is fueling literally millions of ...

Real-time business intelligence is going mainstream, thanks in part to the Storm and Spark open source projects. Here's how to choose between them The idea of real-time business intelligence has been ...

Microsoft is making available as of October 15 a preview of Apache Storm for its HDInsight Hadoop-on-Azure service. Microsoft officials are touting the addition of Storm support as key to allowing ...

MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of a leading distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced that Quantium, the leading data analytics firm in Australia, has selected the MapR Distribution ...

Real-time streaming is essential for big data analytics and provides valuable insights from data being processed while current and most relevant, rather than hours or days later. With the big data ...

Pivotal, the company at the intersection of big data, PaaS, and agile development, today announced that it is bringing an in-memory transactional store to Hadoop with Pivotal™ GemFire™ XD that is ...

Overview: Modern big data tools like Apache Spark and Apache Kafka enable fast processing and real-time streaming for smarter ...

Did you know that 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone? With such an overwhelming influx of information, businesses are constantly seeking efficient ways to manage and ...

Hadoop has progressed from a large scale, batch-oriented analytics tool used by a handful of webscalers to a multi-application processing platform for webscale and enterprise users. The vendors of ...