Apache Hadoop developers working with SQL query engines can now rely on a new security tool from Cloudera Inc. that reportedly provides the granularity to secure data access from most SQL and business ...

Hadoop is a popular open-source distributed storage and processing framework. This primer about the framework covers commercial solutions, Hadoop on the public cloud, and why it matters for business.

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 introduced a new way to simplify the analysis of large data sets, and in a very short time reshaped the big data market. In fact, today Hadoop is often synonymous with the term big data. Since ...

But these modules are only part of Hadoop's "ecosystem," to borrow a term from Novetta’s Smith. Apache itself offers other tools that supplement Hadoop by providing needed capabilities. These tools ...