Hadoop, an open source framework that enables distributed computing, has changed the way we deal with big data. Parallel processing with this set of tools can improve performance several times over.

Actian Corporation today challenged the industry to consider whether current implementations of Hadoop can translate to mainstream adoption. While many organizations have made significant Hadoop ...

The performance bottlenecks in a Hadoop cluster for 66 nodes are different from the bottlenecks found in a Hadoop cluster of 1,000 nodes, she said. The performance can vary according to the type of ...

Many organizations use Hadoop to gain competitive advantage, but because of the very nature of distributed systems, there are inherent performance limitations that even the most advanced Hadoop users ...

The growth of Apache Hadoop over the past decade has proven that the ability of this open source technology to process data at massive scale and allow users access to shared resources is not hype.