It was a busy day at the Apache Software Foundation’s (ASF) offices yesterday, with not one, but two major software releases hitting the wire. The foundation announced the availability of Apache ...

Just since August of this year, the Apache Incubator has welcomed, or been asked to consider, an array of new projects from the Big Data world. Beyond having Big Data in common, all of them were ...

The latest open source Big Data project to be advanced to top-level status by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is Kudu, a "columnar storage engine built for the Apache Hadoop ecosystem designed to ...

Cloudera Inc. yesterday proposed to donate its homegrown Impala and Kudu projects to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to foster further community development of the technologies used for Big Data ...

It’s commonly asserted—and generally accepted—that the era of the “one-size-fits-all” database is over. We expect that enterprises will use a combination of database technologies to meet the distinct ...