The demand for job skills related to data processing — NoSQL, Apache Hadoop, Python, and a smattering of other such skills — has hit all-time highs, according to statistics collected by tech job site ...

NoSQL and Hadoop—two foundations of the emerging agile data architecture—have been on the scene for several years now, and, industry observers say, adoption continues to accelerate—especially within ...

While Hadoop, a platform for big data analytics, and NoSQL, a database technology for enterprise, web, mobile, and IoT applications, may seem different, they do complement each other. In a recent DBTA ...

Hybrid cloud vendor Cloudian Inc. has expanded into Big Data analytics by fully integrating the Apache Hadoop platform into its HyperStore software. In addition, it’s also joined the Hortonworks ...

If your company isn’t a big data expert by now—well, you’re in good company. While the technology has been around for several years, it’s not a neatly packaged application anyone can just plug and ...

It’s been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a rack of computers. The buzzword is now well known to your boss but still just a vague and ...

Pivotal, the Big Data spinoff from EMC and VMWare, has announced today its "Pivotal Big Data Suite," which it refers to as the industry's first Big Data Mega Bundle. The suite, available on a ...

“You can’t handle the truth.” We all remember Jack Nicholson’s iconic words in A Few Good Men as a seminal moment in pop culture. Yet, that statement has a lot of relevance for companies and their ...

There’s a certain allure to big data technology that tempts us to view it as the solution to every business problem. But there are times when the simplicity of traditional technology–like relational ...

Google is adding another product in its range of big data services on the Google Cloud Platform today. The new Google Cloud Dataproc service, which is now in beta, sits between managing the Spark data ...