The quest to replace Hadoop’s aging MapReduce is a bit like waiting for buses in Britain. You watch a really long time, then a bunch come along at once. We already have Tez and Spark in the mix, but ...

The de facto standard for real-time stream processing is sometimes described as being complex and difficult to learn. Start by understanding these core principles. In recent years, Apache Flink has ...

Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. You'll hear it mentioned often, along with associated technologies such as Hive and Pig. But what does it do, and ...

Hadoop, which is marking its 10th anniversary this year, has expanded well beyond its early days as a platform for batch processing of large datasets on commodity hardware. And, although the name has ...