The opportunity and challenge of Big Data from new platforms such as Hadoop is that it opens a new range of analytics. On one hand, Big Data analytics have updated and revived programmatic access to ...

Hadoop is the most significant concrete technology behind the so called “Big Data” revolution. Hadoop combines an economical model for storing massive quantities of data – the Hadoop Distributed File ...

Watching this evolution in volume (and the accompanying “V’s” in the large scale data equation) got Thusoo and his team at Facebook thinking about accessibility and usability. After all, what good was ...