Scientists and mathematicians have long loved Python as a vehicle for working with data and automation. Python has not lacked for libraries such as Hadoopy or Pydoop to work with Hadoop, but those ...

The demand for job skills related to data processing — NoSQL, Apache Hadoop, Python, and a smattering of other such skills — has hit all-time highs, according to statistics collected by tech job site ...

We still don’t have any official details, but we do have a leaked slide. Microsoft’s Hadoop Although NoSQL and its biggest celebrity, Hadoop, are deeply rooted in open source, commercial behemoths ...

At last, big-data fans, we've got some word of the seemingly-missing-but-not-forgotten Windows Server implementation of Hadoop promised by Microsoft and Hortonworks. I'd started wondering whether ...

Hadoop has evolved into a major part of the data management landscape over the last decade. Yet for some organizations, Hadoop has required many more resources than originally planned, both for ...

Many technology pros view OLAP as a legacy technology, a holdover from the days of data warehousing that doesn’t have a place in today’s big data world. But several startups are fighting to change ...

Like much ground-breaking IT (such as TCP/IP or Unix), Hadoop wasn’t originally built with the enterprise in mind, let alone enterprise security. Hadoop’s original purpose was to manage publicly ...

With the massive amount of data proliferating the Web, companies such as Google and many others are building new technologies to sort it all. Core to that movement is something called MapReduce, a ...

Microsoft's getting into the Hadoop game, and people are skeptical. Can Microsoft really embrace open source technology? And if it can, will it end up co-opting it somehow, or will it truly play nice?

Hortonworks -- the Yahoo spinoff dedicated to Hadoop -- has joined forces with analytics outfit Teradata to help big businesses make use of the increasingly popular open source data-crunching platform ...