The quest to replace Hadoop’s aging MapReduce is a bit like waiting for buses in Britain. You watch a really long time, then a bunch come along at once. We already have Tez and Spark in the mix, but ...

The in-memory batch-processing framework sheds more JVM performance bottlenecks as a major Hadoop vendor eyes Spark as a full-blown replacement for the aging MapReduce Apache Spark, the in-memory data ...

While MapReduce still enjoys widespread use in the Hadoop ecosystem, the number of new deployments that are being brought online is declining. And the trend has not gone unnoticed by the vendors that ...

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 ...

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Will Apache Parquet be the "next big thing" in the Big Data/Hadoop ecosystem? It was only 14 months ago that the Apache Spark project was graduated to a top-level project by Hadoop steward Apache ...