Scientists and mathematicians have long loved Python as a vehicle for working with data and automation. Python has not lacked for libraries such as Hadoopy or Pydoop to work with Hadoop, but those ...

Pivotal HD 2.0 deploys Hadoop for enterprise-grade data analytics PaaS, more for Pivotal's benefit than Hadoop's Pivotal, an EMC/VMware spin-off that has big plans to deliver big data analytics ...

Hadoop may ultimately enable a renaissance in the user experience, but it hasn’t so far. After years of hype, you can’t blame business users who sometimes feel that Hadoop is a white elephant.

The merger of two major Hadoop players this week -- Cloudera and Hortonworks -- is a clear sign the Hadoop market is on the wane.

This same process is now unfolding in the Big Data space, with an open-source ecosystem centered around Hadoop displacing the expensive, proprietary solutions. Startups are creating more ...

Out of the Hadoop box What's new is that now AtScale goes beyond Hadoop (in the cloud or on-premises), offering support for Teradata DW, Google Dataproc and BigQuery.

Hadoop distributor Cloudera has released a commercial edition of the Apache Spark program, which analyzes data in real time from within Cloudera’s Hadoop environments. The release has the ...

The open-source software, which has emerged as the de facto standard for big data processing, may be what tips enterprise in the favor of open source, according to some high-level execs.