Only 20,000 or so of the big beasts still exist in the wild. They’re IBM mainframes, and despite the scorn of a legacy label, they continue to run critical processes companies simply don’t trust to ...

Google announced last week the release of open source MapReduce framework for C, called MR4C, that allows developers to run native code in Hadoop framework. MR4C framework brings together the ...

Hadoop MapReduce has been widely embraced for analyzing large, static data sets. New technology integrates a stand-alone MapReduce engine into an in-memory data grid, enabling real-time analytics on ...