As the default database for Hadoop, you'd expect HBase to be more popular than it is, but its time may already have passed A few years ago, HBase looked set to become one of the dominant databases in ...

With so many NoSQL choices, how do you decide on one? Here’s a handy guide for narrowing your choice to three Hadoop gets much of the big data credit, but the reality is that NoSQL databases are far ...

I recently spent an evening with the Qubit braintrust in the Ace Hotel in Manhattan, NYC’s little piece of San Francisco. Amid the constellation of glowing Apple logos on the laptops in the common ...

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Both HBase and Cassandra can deal with large data sets, and provide high transaction rates and low latency lookups. Both allow map-reduce processing to be run against the database when aggregation or ...

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One of the great things about Hadoop is that it’s open source, which allows developers of all stripes to lash their code to the beast and give it a whirl. One of the big data software startups riding ...

The underlying programming model for MapReduce has been revamped and has changed quite a bit. Chuck Lam, the author of Hadoop in Action Benefits that keep getting better include high levels of ...

WANdisco, a company focused on providing maximum uptime for systems including Hadoop, has acquired a San Francisco database startup called OhmData for $2.1 million. OhmData’s technology, called C5, is ...

SHENZHEN, China, April 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- HBase has long been a preferred solution for large-scale data storage due to its scalability, high availability, and cost-effectiveness on commodity ...