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.

Hortonworks, a leading contributor to Apache Hadoop, has released Hortonworks Sandbox, a learning environment and on-ramp for anyone interested in learning, evaluating or using Apache Hadoop in the ...

Hadoop was named after a toy elephant, sounds like a Dr. Seuss character, and it's the hottest thing in big-data technology. It's a software framework that makes short work of a tall task ...

Industry observers say many enterprises are taking their pilot-stage big data systems, particularly those incorporating the Hadoop platform, and putting them into broader production.

With the new release of its Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has radically expanded the set of supporting tools for the data processing framework. “What we saw was that most organizations deploy ...

Hadoop veteran Arun Murthy says Apache Slider will have a major bearing on the future versatility and take-up of the distributed big-data technology.

Big data and therefore Hadoop are at the center of many important processes within 15-year-old PayPal, says the Internet bank’s Director of Engineering Anil Madan. But that does not mean that he ...

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 ...

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 ...