The road to YARN
Hortonworks speed up Hive by 50x in first phase of Stinger Initiative
The latest version of Hortonworks main Hadoop data platform suggests company is on track for 100x faster SQL querying
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NoSQL in the firing line
MapR release HBase-heavy Hadoop distro, M7
Every Hadoop vendor wants to be different. MapR opt for NoSQL approach to their special Hadoop sauce
Crashing the BI party
BI startup Platfora leaps out of beta, with Hadoop partners in tow
They might be late to the dance, but Platfora’s Hadoop-preaching BI solution looks to be worth the wait.
The heat is on
MapR raise $30m as Hadoop vendor competition heats up
An extra $30m in the bank should help MapR to compete with the giants crashing the Hadoop distribution market
Sting in the tail?
Hortonworks announce Stinger to solve Hadoops real-time headache
With their competition placing faith in new solutions, the Yahoo spinoff opt to renovate and improve Hadoop veteran Hive.
Hadoop's supporting cast
Hortonworks put faith in open source management tool Apache Ambari
The latest Hortonworks Data Platform brings an important Hadoop management tool for novices. Could it give them the edge over other Hadoop vendors?
Bigger and better
Reasons to be excited about Big Data in 2013
The year of Big Data may be over, but the rides only just begun. Heres why JAXenter is still excited by the buzzword in the coming year.
Beyond batch
Cloudera unveil real-time query engine Impala
The Hadoop vendor are the first to really capitalise on real-time with this new open source querying project. Will it pave the way for the rest to follow?
High availability on the agenda
Hortonworks bolster Data Platform with 1.1 release
With their competitors treading into the alpha waters of Hadoop 2.0, Hortonworks hold steady with their Data Platform adding in some nifty new features
Digging Deeper
Big Data digger Drill project appears in Apache Incubator – Hadoop killer?
Big data and analytics go hand-in-hand, yet the technology for processing isn’t at that level. Just yet. Apache Drill, based upon Google Dremel aims to change things. Is it a Hadoop killer? It doesn’t look like it…
Packaging all the Big Data moves
Googles introduces Cloud Platform Partner Program
With Google’s recent shapeshifting towards cloud, this was inevitable – putting it all under the Google Cloud Platform name and offering it up speciallists to play with
Which distro to pick?
Hadoop: The State of Play
With partnerships and deals being struck up daily, we take stock of the Hadoop space and who has positioned themselves the best for the coming months. Some are suggesting it won’t matter though…
Straight out of Hadoop World 2012
Amazon teams up with MapR for alternative Hadoop option
Yet more exciting Hadoop announcements this week, as MapR deploy Version 2.0 of its MapR Distribution and reveal a tie-in with Amazon Elastic MapReduce service
Someone's moving quickly
VMware makes Hadoop advances – Project Serengeti and Spring for Apache Hadoop 1.0 M2
Once you’ve made one Hadoop announcement, they then come in droves. Welcome Project Serengeti to ease Hadoop transition and Spring for Apache Hadoop 1.0 M2, bringing in enterprise-looking features
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