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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Pivotal® and Hortonworks® (NASDAQ:HDP) today announced that Pivotal HAWQ, a key product in the Pivotal Big Data Suite, is now available on the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP™), a widely used Hadoop ...

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 ...

Karmasphere has introduced Karmasphere Analyst, productivity software for data professionals working with massive data sets. "Karmasphere is focused on providing software for developers and analysts ...

Microsoft today revealed more details surrounding Windows and SQL Server 12 support for big data analytics via cozier integration with Apache Hadoop, the increasingly popular open source cloud ...

Microsoft donates faster querying technology to Hadoop's Hive and Stinger subprojects, but it isn't giving away the farm Microsoft’s fond enough of Hadoop to give the platform a special place in its ...