Competition is fierce in the world of Hadoop, as a set of technology companies take freely available code and look for ways to differentiate themselves from one another. Some of that differentiation ...

Yahoo! is releasing their tested source code used to help power its sites and products, called Hadoop. Hadoop is free Java software framework born out of an open-source implementation of Google’s ...

The latest release of Apache Hadoop code includes a new workload management tool that backers of the project say will make it easier for developers to build applications for the big data platform.

Adobe Systems is contributing code to the Puppet data center automation and configuration management framework project to manage the open-source Hadoop project. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years ...

Building on the apparent success of its Cloud Foundry PaaS project, EMC and VMware spinoff Pivotal today unveiled backers for a new initiative, aimed at defining a core set of Apache technologies to ...

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 ...

Talend, a provider of big data integration software, has announced the availability of Talend version 5.5. According to the company, Talend 5.5 enhances Talend’s performance and scalability on Hadoop ...

The market for Hadoop and related products is one of the most active in all of enterprise software. I’ve developed a simple framework that can help quickly explain the differences in the way Hadoop ...