Unless a "neutral" third party publishes them, we tend to view benchmarks as self-serving exercises that vendors typically stack in their own favor. But recent benchmarks issued by Cloudera and ...

July 15 — Actian Corporation (“Actian”) today announced the general availability of the Actian Analytics Platform – Hadoop SQL Edition. Debuted at last month’s Hadoop Summit, the Actian Analytics ...

You may not realize it, but Hadoop has already been around for 10 years. Even now, with most organizations having in one way or another adopted it, not everything about it is obvious and clear. But ...

NEW YORK, N.Y., Oct. 16 — Actian Corporation (“Actian”), the Hadoop analytics company, has launched the Actian Analytics Platform – Express Hadoop SQL Edition, a free community version of the industry ...

Ten Best Practices for Securing Sensitive Data in Hadoop Actian today launched a free community edition of its SQL-compatible Big Data platform for Hadoop at the Strata + Hadoop World 2014 conference.

MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of a leading distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, has announced that its SQL-on-Hadoop solution earned the highest score for Hadoop/data warehouse interoperability in ...

Beware the Data Collectors for They Are Us: Privacy and Big Data Moving to further integrate Hadoop and Vertica, Hewlett-Packard this week released an update to its ...

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 7, 2014) - Altiscale, Inc., a leading innovator in Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) solutions, today announced a comprehensive SQL-on-Hadoop offering for the Altiscale Data ...

There are many instances today where the use of traditional databases causes inefficiency and increased workloads. If some of those traditional systems were Hadoop databases instead, users would be a ...

One commonly cited stumbling block to the broader adoption of Apache Hadoop in the enterprise is the difficulty and expense of finding and hiring developers who understand and can think in Hadoop ...