MapReduce was invented by Google in 2004, made into the Hadoop open source project by Yahoo! in 2007, and now is being used increasingly as a massively parallel data processing engine for Big Data.

DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has awarded $3 million to software provider Continuum Analytics to help fund the development of Python’s data processing and visualization ...

When the Big Data moniker is applied to a discussion, it’s often assumed that Hadoop is, or should be, involved. But perhaps that’s just doctrinaire. Hadoop, at its core, consists of HDFS (the Hadoop ...

Although not immediately obvious, C++ is used in Big Data along with Java, MapReduce, Python, and Scala. For example, if you’re using a Hadoop framework, it will be implemented in Java, but MapReduce ...

In the vast universe of IT, data is categorized as being either structured or unstructured, from a macro perspective. Generation of unstructured data is orders of magnitude higher than that generated ...

DUBLIN, Calif., Nov. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Sybase, Inc., an SAP® company (NYSE: SAP) and industry leader in enterprise and mobile software, today launched the new version of the Sybase® IQ high ...

Big Data doesn't always involve Hadoop and MapReduce. This is a point I have made before, and I probably won't shut up about it anytime soon. Hadoop is good for a lot, but it has a batch-oriented ...

‘Big data’ is a term that is appearing with increasing frequency. It is often used to mean large volumes of structured data (such as your customer list) but also to describe semi-structured data ...