Quantcast, an internet audience measurement and ad targeting service, processes over 20 petabytes of data per day using Apache Hadoop and its own custom file system called Quantcast File System (QFS).

This paper provides a high-level overview of how Apache Cassandra™ can be used to replace HDFS, with no programming changes required from a developer perspective, and how a number of compelling ...

Facebook deployed Raid in large Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) clusters last year, to increase capacity by tens of petabytes, as well as to reduce data replication. But the engineering team ...

What are some of the cool things in the 2.0 release of Hadoop? To start, how about a revamped MapReduce? And what would you think of a high availability (HA) implementation of the Hadoop Distributed ...

Cloud computing is a new technology which comes from distributed computing, parallel computing, grid computing and other computing technologies. In cloud computing, the data storage and computing are ...

MapR's file system was its original differentiator in the Hadoop market: unlike standard HDFS, which is optimized for reading, and supports writing to a file only once, MapR-FS fully supports the read ...

Big data can mean big threats to security, thanks to the tempting volumes of information that may sit waiting for hackers to peruse. BlueTalon hopes to tackle that problem with what it calls the first ...

Did you know that 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone? With such an overwhelming influx of information, businesses are constantly seeking efficient ways to manage and ...

In a world where new technologies are often presented to the industry as rainbows and unicorns, there is always someone in a cubicle trying to figure out how to solve business problems and just make ...