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.

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, ...

Apache Spark should be considered the default engine for Hadoop workloads going forward, taking the job that MapReduce held for many years, Cloudera announced today. The Hadoop distributor also ...

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 ...

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 ...

PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 9 — Cloudera, the leader in enterprise analytic data management powered by Apache Hadoop, today announced the One Platform Initiative, an effort to accelerate Apache Spark ...

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 ...

Cloudera Inc. is tweaking its business model. The company started life as the Red Hat for Hadoop — a provider of paid support for the open-source data management platform. Last fall, the Burlingame, ...

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 ...

Hadoop distributor Cloudera has released a commercial edition of the Apache Spark program, which analyzes data in real time from within Cloudera’s Hadoop environments. The release has the potential to ...

The debate about the market for private cloud infrastructure finally has an objective test case: the choice between commercial Hadoop implementations from Cloudera and Amazon.com. James Urquhart is a ...