Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the big data analytics and marketing applications company, and MapR Technologies, Inc., a provider of Apache™ Hadoop, has announced an expanded partnership that covers technology ...

Hadoop, an open source framework that enables distributed computing, has changed the way we deal with big data. Parallel processing with this set of tools can improve performance several times over.

Over at the Hortonworks Blog, Jim Walker writes that the shift to data-oriented business is happening everywhere. An as many enterprises are learning, interoperability is the key to building their Big ...

Big data analytics is one of the major trends every company is told it must jump on for competitive advantage, even survival. As a result, there’s a lot of mythology around big data. Those myths can ...

When it comes to business intelligence, most enterprise users are intimately acquainted with tools such as Microsoft Excel. They tend to feel less comfortable with data-management technologies like ...

Hadoop is a cost effective solution and can manage structured as well as unstructured data unlike traditional solutions such as RDBMS. The need to track and analyze consumer behavior, maintain ...