The sheer volume of ‘Big Data’ produced today by various sectors is beginning to overwhelm even the extremely efficient computational techniques developed to sift through all that information. But a ...

Facebook yesterday open sourced Presto, its distributed SQL query engine built to improve Big Data analytics beyond existing solutions such as Hadoop MapReduce and Hive. The improvements are ...

What are some of the cool things in the 2.0 release of Hadoop? To start, how about a revamped MapReduce? And what would you think of a high availability (HA) implementation of the Hadoop Distributed ...

There was a time, not too long ago, when taking the temperature of the Hadoop project and finding out the latest trends and advancements in the world of distributed computing was a relatively easy ...

Neel Somani, a researcher and technologist from the University of California, Berkeley, has seen firsthand how big traffic spikes can trip up even top tech companies. They use distributed systems, ...

The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...