When your data and work grow, and you still want to produce results in a timely manner, you start to think big. Your one beefy server reaches its limits. You need a way to spread your work across many ...

In this webcast, Cloudera founder Christophe Bisciglia and O’Reilly author Tom White will provide an introduction to Hadoop/MapReduce, the open source project that allows organizations to process, ...

Hadoop has forever changed the economics and dynamics of large-scale computing, and its use among enterprises looking to augment their traditional data warehouses continues to grow. During the first ...

In part 1 of this series, we introduced the Hadoop Ecosystem. We will cover HDFS and MapReduce in this part. When a dataset outgrows the storage capacity of a single physical machine, it becomes ...

Still a bit confused about what Hadoop is? Don’t let your lack of understanding be the elephant in the room. Get a less-than-two-minute intro in this video. If you can only read one tech story a day, ...

Having introduced various components of Hadoop Ecosystem in part 1 and part 2, the last part of this series covers Hive, HBase, Mahout, Sqoop and ZooKeeper. Apache Hive is a data warehouse ...