MapReduce developers face a steep learning curve when first deploying and configuring a Hadoop cluster and later when verifying program correctness. Compounded by long execution times (measured in ...

Today RainStor announced that it is releasing a version of its database that runs natively on Apache Hadoop called RainStor Big Data Analytics on Hadoop. This will enable users to query data stored in ...

Big data analytic software vendors who run on Hadoop are increasingly replacing their MapReduce engines with Apache Spark and other in-memory analytic engines as the runtime of choice. Many of these ...