The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. A reasonable estimate would put the technology on the “slope of ...

Apache Spark with Java 8 is proving to be the perfect match for Big Data. Spark 1.0 was just released this May, and it’s already surpassed Hadoop in popularity on the Web. Java 8, the latest version, ...

Google is adding another product in its range of big data services on the Google Cloud Platform today. The new Google Cloud Dataproc service, which is now in beta, sits between managing the Spark data ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marco Chiappetta is a technologist who covers semiconductors and AI. Rackspace made some noise yesterday at the Strata + Hadoop ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Apache Spark has been called a game changer and perhaps ...

Matei Zaharia, an assistant professor of computer science at MIT and the initial creator of Apache Spark, took the stage at Strata 2014 to speak about the Spark open source project and about the way ...

The first Spark Summit East conference concluded yesterday, just a month after Apache Spark practically stole the show at the Strata+Hadoop World conference, reinvigorating the debate about where the ...

In a world of real-time data, why are we still so fixated on Hadoop? Hadoop, architected around batch processing, remains the poster child for big data, though its outsized reputation still outpaces ...

At the recent Strata conference in London, Doug Cutting, Hadoop co-creator and chief architect at Hadoop distributor Cloudera, took time to talk to Computer Weekly about the state of play in big data ...

Hadoop isn’t living up to its hype -- which means that both Hadoop vendors and their customers need to widen their array of big data technologies Hadoop makes all the big data noise. Too bad it’s not ...