Is it Time for Hadoop Alternatives?
Hadoop has progressed from a large scale, batch-oriented analytics tool used by a handful of webscalers to a multi-application processing platform for webscale and enterprise users. The vendors of Hadoop's three major distributions uniformly …
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NoSQL Integration with the Hadoop Ecosystem By @MapR | @BigDataExpo
Apache Hadoop is an open source Big Data processing platform that comes with its own extensive ecosystem to support various business and technical needs. Hadoop's specialty is large-scale processing and analytics over volumes of data that cannot be …
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Altiscale Lands M To Continue Building Hadoop Cloud Service
When you think of Hadoop, you probably think of a complex on-premises set up in your data center, but Altiscale wants to reduce some of that complexity by moving the whole thing to the cloud and offering Hadoop as a service. Today it got $ 30M in Series …
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