When Strata + Hadoop World comes around in the US, once a year in New York and once a year, as it is now, in San Jose, CA, it's a bit of a news feeding frenzy. I'm not even at the event; I was merely ...

With rivals Cloudera and Hortonworks working through a complex and possibly lengthy merger, MapR Technologies is offering potential converts a new release of its big data platform and a free ...

Here’s the simple version of the story: Cloudera’s enterprise Hadoop distribution, CDH3, is open source, while MapR’s enterprise Hadoop distribution, M5, is closed. The reality is more nuanced, ...

Hadoop training courses and certification programs are available from companies including Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM and MapR. But if you’re not ready to commit to formal training courses, there are ...

Who's going to win, Cloudera, Hortonworks or MapR? All three are battling for Hadoop supremacy in terms of prominent customers, funding and market share. The latest blow was figuratively struck by ...

Now that MapR has received a load of cash from Google Capital, it is time to ask: What does this latest round of Hadoop funding mean? All three of the major players have gotten large amounts of money ...

If you go back about a decade, Hadoop was hot and getting hotter. It was a platform for processing big data, just as big data was emerging from the domain of a few web-scale companies to one where ...

If you thought the Open Data Platform (ODP) was just a bunch of hype, think again. This morning at the Hadoop Summit in Brussels, three big data crunching giants — Hortonworks, IBM and Pivotal ...

When it emerged from stealth in 2011, MapR was an outlier in the Hadoop community. At the time, Hadoop was defined largely by two projects adapted from Google research: MapReduce, which introduced ...

As organizations continue to evaluate Hadoop for large scale data analysis, Hadoop software vendors are refining their products for enterprise use, addressing concerns around reliability and expanded ...