The Hadoop market is on a tear, growing at a compound annual growth rate of roughly 60%, according to IDC. But why it's growing, or rather, how it's being used, might surprise you. Given all the media hype around Hadoop and its power to predict everything from the optimal number of raisins in your cereal (23) to the exact date of Armageddon (next Tuesday - call in sick), it's perhaps surprising to learn tha ...

The Hadoop explosion continues, with the number of organizations adopting the platform growing at a compound annual growth rate of about 60 percent, according to the International Data Corporation. However, ReadWrite's Matt Asay wrote that many of the companies adopting it are still acclimating to Hadoop and aren't using it at its optimal capacity. Currently, most organizations that use Hadoop take advantag ...

Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, and Cloudera, the category leader that sets the standard for Apache Hadoop in the enterprise, today announced a strategic alliance that delivers big data analytics across the enterprise. The relationship ensures best-in-class integration of Splunk® Enterprise to Cloudera Enterprise using Splunk Hadoop Connect, ...

Summary: Today’s Ford is a data-driven behemoth that is sitting on huge opportunities in Big Data -- once the tools catch up. While Big Data is arguably the hottest buzz phrase in tech in 2012, there is a shockingly scarce amount of information about how real companies are using Big Data to do big things. We recently sat down with Ford, one of the world’s most data-driven and data-rich companies, to talk ab ...

Summary: Hortonworks' chief talks about the run on Hadoop distributions, an "open core" strategy and crunching the big data numbers. Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden has a simple mission: Grow the Hadoop and big data markets with a heavy dash of open source and then the company's financial health will follow. Amid current Hadoop developments---is there any company NOT launching a distribution with some value add ...

Cloudera on Tuesday announced the general release of its Impala query engine for Hadoop after six months of beta testing by more than 40 customers. It's the first so-called SQL-on-Hadoop product to reach general release. But with a bevy of such systems on the way -- including options from IBM (Big SQL), Hortonworks (Stinger), MapR (Drill), Pivotal (HAWQ) and Teradata (SQL-H) -- the question is whether Impal ...

Before jumping straight into why Metamarkets open sourced Druid, I thought I would give a brief dive into what Druid is and how it came about. For more details, check out the Druid white paper. We are lucky to be developing software in a period of extreme innovation. Fifteen years ago, if a developer or ops person went into his or her boss’s office and suggested using a non-relational/non-SQL/non-ACID/non-O ...

10gen, the MongoDB company, today announced that ServiceSource® (NASDAQ: SREV), the global leader in recurring revenue management, selected MongoDB to power its Renew OnDemand cloud application. Renew OnDemand is the only cloud application built specifically to increase recurring revenue. Based on 12 years of best practices in growing recurring service, maintenance and subscription revenue, Renew OnDemand i ...

VoltDB, the world's fastest high-velocity database, today announced the results of a recent third-party benchmark performance test designed to test throughput and scalability for large-scale online gaming applications. An Erlang client application benchmark for VoltDB recently recorded an extraordinary 877,519 transactions per second running on a standard Amazon EC2 server configuration. The benchmark test ...

Sumo Logic, which makes cloud-based tools to crunch data on a massive scale, expects a sevenfold increase in the number of its customers this year as "Big Data" gains in popularity, its chief executive said. The privately owned startup is among a handful of companies to have caught the eye of investors in search of the next Splunk (SPLK.O), the Big Data trailblazer that has more than doubled in value since ...