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…