
What’s Fueling the Move to a Converged Data Platform?
The datacenter is going through tremendous change, and many long-held assumptions are now being called into question. …
The datacenter is going through tremendous change, and many long-held assumptions are now being called into question. …
In the decade that Hadoop has been a force, first as an independent research endeavor, then as a project at Yahoo, before moving swiftly into Facebook, LinkedIn, and other webscale datacenters, the entire data landscape changed. …
Time and again, commercial Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies has demonstrated the value of the MapR-FS file system that underpins its Hadoop stack and differentiates it, more than any other feature, from the other Hadoop platforms with which it competes. …
Document databases are an integral part of the application stack, but they often have scalability issues and they tend to end up off to the side of the Hadoop systems that are increasingly being used as a the repository of record for all kinds of data. …
As a platform for doing analytics on large datasets that is much less costly than would be possible with parallel data warehouses, Hadoop and its myriad extensions and modified underpinnings has fulfilled its purpose. …
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