Hadoop

The Top Five Apache Software Projects in 2019: From Kafka to Zookeeper

The Apache Foundation is 20 years old this year and has grown to the point where it now supports over…

Critical Hadoop Vulnerability Identified

Uber software engineer Ekanth Sethuramalingam he has identified a critical vulnerability in Apache Hadoop – the widely used framework for…

Cloudera Bucks an Industry Trend, Doubles Down on Open Source

Hadoop wrangler Cloudera has bucked a trend to tighten control of open source code by protecting it under ever more…

From Mortal Combat to Mutual Hugs: Cloudera, Hortonworks Merge to Create $5.2 billion Data Cloud Heavyweight

US-based data warehouse and engineering company Cloudera has agreed a merger with Santa Clara-headquartered Hortonworks in an all-stock deal unanimously…

Hortonworks rides positive cash flow for first time ever

Apache Hadoop development firm Hortonworks has posted positive operating cash flow for the first time in its seven-year history. Big…

Microsoft taps the postman to move your data into its UK data centres

Microsoft is taking a leaf out of Amazon Web Services playbook by offering customers the ability to post their hard…

Hortonworks CEO Exclusive: De-risking Hadoop amid a new wave of data

In 2005 a new technology appeared on the market that promised to help businesses to deal with extremely large data…

Big, open hypocrites? Open source big data analytics brings out the Beauty and the Beast in tech

The virtues of open source have long been shouted from the rooftops by all those that invested in it, both…

Nearly 30,000 MongoDB servers held captive in ransomware attacks – and ElasticSearch is just as bad

Ransomware has been hitting the headlines in early 2017, with high-profile attacks on MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Hadoop and CouchDB installations sweeping…

MapR claims open source big data victory with patent award

MapR Technologies has been awarded a patent for the Converged Data Platform. The big data company revealed that it had…