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 ...

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 ...

There are many instances today where the use of traditional databases causes inefficiency and increased workloads. If some of those traditional systems were Hadoop databases instead, users would be a ...

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 ...

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 ...

MapR-DB with Hadoop powers real-time, data-driven applications NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–October 15, 2014– MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today ...

Hadoop started out as a batch-oriented system for chewing through massive amounts of unstructured data on the cheap, enabling all sorts of things such as search engines and advertising systems. The ...

Conventional wisdom holds that as a batch-oriented platform, Hadoop is not well suited for running high-performance analytics applications. This week, however, Actian unveiled the Actian Analytics ...

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 ...

Splice Machine says the launch this week of its public beta opens up the Hadoop stack for the first time to a full-featured SQL database, capable of running transactions and analytics simultaneously.