Competition is fierce in the world of Hadoop, as a set of technology companies take freely available code and look for ways to differentiate themselves from one another. Some of that differentiation ...

Yahoo! is releasing their tested source code used to help power its sites and products, called Hadoop. Hadoop is free Java software framework born out of an open-source implementation of Google’s ...

The latest release of Apache Hadoop code includes a new workload management tool that backers of the project say will make it easier for developers to build applications for the big data platform.

Building on the apparent success of its Cloud Foundry PaaS project, EMC and VMware spinoff Pivotal today unveiled backers for a new initiative, aimed at defining a core set of Apache technologies to ...

The market for Hadoop and related products is one of the most active in all of enterprise software. I’ve developed a simple framework that can help quickly explain the differences in the way Hadoop ...