Quantcast, an internet audience measurement and ad targeting service, processes over 20 petabytes of data per day using Apache Hadoop and its own custom file system called Quantcast File System ...

Several distributed file systems are used over the cloud because the cloud itself includes large numbers of commodity-grade servers, harnessed to deliver highly scalable and on-demand services.

Doug Cutting, creator of the distributed computing platform Hadoop, on why the platform is in an almost unassailable position and what's in store for the platform.

Big data can mean big threats to security, but BlueTalon just launched what it calls the first-ever filtering and dynamic masking capabilities for use directly on the Hadoop Distributed File ...

At its core, we have MapReduce, YARN and the Hadoop Distributed File System, but the number of peripheral Apache projects that compliment Hadoop -- including Ambari, Chukwa, Avro, HBase and Mahout -- ...

This paper provides a high-level overview of how Apache Cassandra™ can be used to replace HDFS, with no programming changes required from a developer perspective, and how a number of compelling ...

SAP is using the Hadoop distro vendor MapR's file system in its cloud storage layer, and not just for Hadoop/Big Data.

HDP will be a fully open source distribution, including all the components used for a typical Hadoop deployment, including Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), MapReduce, Pig, Hive, HBase and ...

Big data can mean big threats to security, thanks to the tempting volumes of information that may sit waiting for hackers to peruse. BlueTalon hopes to tackle that problem with what it calls the first ...