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SAP Expands Hadoop Reach With Altiscale Deal

SAP completed it acquisition of big data analytics startup Altiscale Inc. this week, saying it would fold Altiscale's data cloud and Hadoop services into its existing SAP HANA cloud and emerging analytics efforts. Rep Read more…

Yahoo Unleashes HBase Transaction Manager

A transaction manager for the NoSQL database HBase has been approved as an open-source incubator project, according to project sponsor Yahoo. The HBase transaction manager dubbed "Omid" ("Hope" in Persian) is the late Read more…

Yahoo’s New Pulsar: A Kafka Competitor?

Yahoo today announced that it's open sourcing Pulsar, a new distributed "publish and subscribe" messaging systems designed to be highly scalable while maintaining low levels of latency. The bus already backs some of Yaho Read more…

Apache’s Wacky But Winning Recipe for Big Data Development

When Doug Cutting set out to develop an open source Web search engine in the late 1990s, he initially chose the GPL license to distribute his wares. When that failed, he decided to give the Apache Software Foundation a s Read more…

GPU-Powered Deep Learning Emerges to Carry Big Data Torch Forward

The big data analytic ecosystem has matured over the last few years to the point where techniques such as machine learning don't seem as exotic as they once were. In fact, consumers have even come to expect their product Read more…

Happy Birthday, Hadoop: Celebrating 10 Years of Improbable Growth

It's hard to believe, but the first Hadoop cluster went into production at Yahoo 10 years ago today. What began as an experiment in distributed computing for an Internet search engine has turned into a global phenomenon Read more…

Inside Yahoo’s Super-Sized Deep Learning Cluster

As the ancestral home of Hadoop, Yahoo is a big user of the open source software. In fact, its 32,000-node cluster is the still the largest in the world. Now the Web giant is souping up its massive investment in Hadoop t Read more…

One Deceptively Simple Secret for Data Lake Success

Gartner turned heads last year when it declared that the majority of data lake projects would end in failure. As a self-avowed "old dog" of data warehousing, EMC's Bill Schmarzo vehemently agrees with that assessment, bu Read more…

Yahoo Casts Real-Time OLAP Queries with Druid

Yahoo is in the process of implementing a big data tool called Druid to power high-speed real-time queries against its massive Hadoop-based data lake. Engineers at the Web giant say the open source database's combination Read more…

Yahoo: We Run the Whole Company on Hadoop

Hadoop is absolutely critical to the operations of Yahoo, executives with the company said this week at the Hadoop Summit. While the company, which spun out Hortonworks in 2011, is moving away from “traditional” Hado Read more…