The tutorial shows a developer where to download the source files from Apache, how to unpack the helper executables, and provides a small set of Java code.

It’s become fashionable to pronounce Hadoop as “dead.” But Hadoop led the way to enterprises losing their fear of big data. And in turn, Hadoop unleashed a virtuous cycle of innovation that ...

Doug Cutting, creator of the distributed computing platform Hadoop, on why the platform is in an almost unassailable position and what's in store for the platform.

On Monday, Greenplum -- now owned by tech giant EMC -- revealed that it has spent the last two years building a new Hadoop platform that it believes will leave the traditional database behind ...

Hadoop is a hot job skill, more so in combination with other skills. Dice lists the top 10 skills hiring managers look for in combination with Hadoop.

Morgan Stanley ran its first Hadoop trial on boxes that were near end of life and the results were so good the banks set up new Hadoop clusters.

Here are 10 predictions on how, by 2020, Hadoop will be used by businesses of all sizes for managing, processing and leveraging data to better serve customers.

The three leaders of the relational database market are responding to the sudden mania for the data processing technology Hadoop in three very different ways. While startups and established data ...

Online database repository provider RainStor unveiled what it is calling the industry's first enterprise-class database that runs natively on Hadoop.

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 ...