"With MySQL we started down the typical database route of sharding and partitioning in order to scale, but we've known for some time that it would be much more effective to use HBase," says Satnam ...

The database's 1.0 version clears away legacy API clutter and improves documentation as it takes on Cassandra and MongoDB Corks popped earlier this week in the halls of the Apache Foundation, as its ...

Splice Machine advertises itself as “the only Hadoop RDBMS.” The idea is to give you a transactionally correct database that has the underlying scalability features of HBase. According to its creators ...

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JNBridge, maker of tools that connect Java- and .NET-based components and apps, this week released another of its free "labs," a.k.a. interoperability kits for developers looking for new ways of ...

Hadoop is a leading solution for nonrelational data storage and processing. It is based on the key Google technologies for storing and processing huge data sets distributed across large clusters of ...

Did you know that 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone? With such an overwhelming influx of information, businesses are constantly seeking efficient ways to manage and ...

Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. You'll hear it mentioned often, along with associated technologies such as Hive and Pig. But what does it do, and ...