The creator of the Hadoop platform, Doug Cutting, is surprised Hadoop didn't have to battle it out with more competitors in its early years but thinks it's now too late for a competitor to take on the ...

In a world of real-time data, why are we still so fixated on Hadoop? Hadoop, architected around batch processing, remains the poster child for big data, though its outsized reputation still outpaces ...

Hadoop, an open source framework that enables distributed computing, has changed the way we deal with big data. Parallel processing with this set of tools can improve performance several times over.

When Doug Cutting created the Hadoop framework 10 years ago he never expected it to bring massive-scale computing to the corporate world. "My expectations were more moderate than what we've seen, for ...

It’s in the nature of hype bubbles to obscure important new paradigms behind a cloud of excitement and exaggerated claims. For example, the phrase “big data” has been so widely and poorly applied that ...