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Forrester Ranks the NoSQL Database Vendors

NoSQL databases have surged in popularity as organizations struggle to serve highly distributed Web applications, but navigating the various types of NoSQL databases and the vendors providing them has proven tricky. Shed Read more…

MapR Puts Apache Drill into Hadoop Distro

Organizations today demand tools that provide familiar SQL-based access to data stored on HDFS. Today, MapR Technologies gave its customers yet another SQL interface when it announced support for Apache Drill 0.5 in the Read more…

Three Things Apache Spark Needs to Out-Hadoop Hadoop

It's only September, but it's clear that 2014 will go down as the Year of Apache Spark. While the open source processing framework has gathered an enormous amount of momentum within the Hadoop ecosystem, there are three Read more…

MapR Says Its Hadoop Tweaks Scale to Meet IoT Volumes

Hadoop is naturally positioned as a key architectural platform that organizations will turn to for analyzing Internet of Things (IoT) data. But according to the folks at MapR Technologies, limitations in plain vanilla Ap Read more…

Where Does Spark Go From Here?

The excitement behind Apache Spark reached an apex last week during the 2014 Spark Summit put on by Databricks, the company behind the in-memory analytics phenomenon. With a large community of users and growing support f Read more…

MapR Announces $110M Investment Led by Google

Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies said today it has completed a $110 million financing round led by heavy hitters Google Capital and the venture capital arm of mobile chip specialist Qualcomm. San Jose-based MapR Read more…

Why Hadoop Won’t Replace Your Data Warehouse

A lot has been made of Hadoop becoming the singular control point for analytics, effectively usurping the enterprise data warehouse (EDW). The recent quest to integrate SQL into Hadoop is an example of that. But a better Read more…