Hadoop has been widely embraced for its ability to economically store and analyze large data sets. Using parallel computing techniques like MapReduce, Hadoop can reduce long computation times to hours ...

In what could best be termed a photo finish, Greenplum and Aster Data Systems have both announced that they have integrated MapReduce into their massively parallel processing (MPP) database engines.

BELLEVUE, WA--(Marketwired - Oct 16, 2014) - ScaleOut Software, a leading provider of in-memory computing software, today announced the release of version 5.2 of its in-memory computing platform; ...

This implementation is intended for illustration purposes only and the examples lack exception handling acceptable for production systems. Beyond showcasing an implementation of the MapReduce concept, ...

Two Google Fellows just published a paper in the latest issue of Communications of the ACM about MapReduce, the parallel programming model used to process more than 20 petabytes of data every day on ...

In the vast universe of IT, data is categorized as being either structured or unstructured, from a macro perspective. Generation of unstructured data is orders of magnitude higher than that generated ...

A little over a year ago when I started my company, I was able to find a small office in the Empire State Building. I'm on the 72nd floor facing south, so the view is amazing. I wish I had better ...