Looking for a fun side project this winter? Jamie Whitehorn has an idea for you. He put Hadoop on a cluster of Raspberry Pi mini-computers. Sound ridiculous? For a student trying to learn Hadoop, it ...

Google and its MapReduce framework may rule the roost when it comes to massive-scale data processing, but there’s still plenty of that goodness to go around. This article gets you started with Hadoop, ...

When Morgan tried to do some portfolio analysis 18 months ago it found that traditional databases and grid computing just wouldn’t scale to the very large volumes of data that its data scientists ...

Just a decade ago, the enterprise IT push was to make Hadoop the platform for storage and analytics. At that time, cloud hesitancy was still looming for large on-prem organizations. Hadoop, no matter ...

Here's a look at different ways to query Hadoop via SQL, some of which are part of the latest edition of MapR's Hadoop distribution SQL: old and busted. Hadoop: new hotness. That’s the conventional ...