Teradata Loom is a data management solution with a browser-based interface for working with data and metadata in Hadoop. It provides the needed structure and governance that is essential to ...

North America holds the largest share of the Hadoop market, driven by the presence of major companies and widespread adoption of Hadoop applications. The Asia Pacific region is poised to witness the ...

Splunk says its Hunk product for Hadoop will open up big-data analytics to a wider business audience and also make life easier for developers. Hunk, which is now downloadable for a free 60-day trial, ...

The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. A reasonable estimate would put the technology on the “slope of ...

Determine the data privacy protection strategy during the planning phase of a deployment, preferably before moving any data into Hadoop. This will prevent the possibility of damaging compliance ...

Teradata Aster has launched a new tool which allows business analysts to work with Hadoop data through SQL query structures. Its Aster SQL-H provides a bridge between widely used business intelligence ...

This week's O'Reilly Strata and Hadoop World conference in New York has attracted a wide range of IT vendors, from industry leaders like IBM and Hewlett-Packard to companies established in the Hadoop ...

The creator of the Hadoop platform, Doug Cutting, is surprised Hadoop didn't have to battle it out with more competitors in its early years but thinks it's now too late for a competitor to take on the ...

Today, many companies still have most of their transactional data in relational database management systems such as Oracle which support various business-critical applications, from order entry to ...

For all of Hadoop’s growth and acceptance as an enterprise technology, it still lacks key features. Some of its shortcomings, such as consistent data governance methodologies, are too important to ...