Almost seven years ago, in a hotel meeting room in Manhattan, Mike Olson, then Cloudera's CEO, briefed me on the still confidential Cloudera project called Impala. I think Olson knew he was preaching ...

Cloudera, the company behind the most widely deployed Hadoop distribution, did something surprising yesterday at Strata + Hadoop World, NYC. Instead of beckoning "old school" database and BI ...

With the latest update to its Apache Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has provided the possibility of using data processing algorithms beyond the customary MapReduce, the company announced Tuesday.

Hadoop is entering a new chapter in its evolution with the launch of an ambitious community effort from Cloudera Inc. that aims to replace MapReduce as its default data processing engine. The proposed ...

Although there will always be instances where it makes more sense to use MapReduce with Hadoop, it’s pretty clear at this point that most enterprise IT organizations would rather use SQL. MapReduce is ...

It is probably a good thing that Doug Cutting, the creator of Hadoop, named the batch-mode data analytics product he created at Yahoo after his child’s stuffed animal rather than something specific ...

It's official: The Hadoop ecosystem has received a brain transplant. Here's how Cloudera, the leading Hadoop vendor, laid out the implications of swapping MapReduce for Spark Earlier this month, ...

Cloudera, a provider of Hadoop-based software and services, and online course prvider Udacity have partnered to offer Hadoop and data science courses. The first, Introduction to Hadoop and MapReduce, ...

Hadoop training courses and certification programs are available from companies including Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM and MapR. But if you’re not ready to commit to formal training courses, there are ...

Cloudera Inc. yesterday announced the release of its interactive, real-time query engine for Apache Hadoop. Called Impala 1.0, the open source project has been in public beta since October 2012. "With ...

Cloudera Inc. and MongoDB Inc. yesterday announced a strategic partnership to integrate their Big Data technologies. Cloudera is one of the main players in the Big Data space, with a popular Hadoop ...