Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. But what does it do, and why do you need all its strangely-named friends, such as Oozie, Zookeeper and Flume?

RainStor is offering an updated RainStor Database to both improve security for Apache Hadoop-based research and to simplify searching and analysis. Written by Dan Kusnetzky, Contributor July 10 ...

Happy birthday Apache Hadoop! 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 ...

Naturally, standard Apache Hadoop can itself be run directly from EC2 and S3. Microsoft Azure HDInsight is a customized Hortonworks HDP deployment. On Google Cloud, ...

Apache Hadoop is one of the few data science tools you should have in your kit. What is Hadoop? Apache Hadoop is an open source software designed for reliable, distributed and scalable computing. The ...

The company's M7 improves Apache Hadoop's performance, reliability, integration and ease of use Written by Dan Kusnetzky, Contributor Oct. 24, 2012 at 4:48 a.m. PT ...

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 ...

Researchers have discovered a new malware attack campaign that exploits misconfigurations in Apache Hadoop and Flink, two technologies for processing big data sets and data streams. The attackers ...

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 ...