Scientists and mathematicians have long loved Python as a vehicle for working with data and automation. Python has not lacked for libraries such as Hadoopy or Pydoop to work with Hadoop, but those ...

‘Big data’ technologies Mapreduce and Hadoop are poised for rapid expansion over the next five years, according to research from IDC. MapReduce is a technique for splitting large analytical jobs into ...

When the Big Data moniker is applied to a discussion, it’s often assumed that Hadoop is, or should be, involved. But perhaps that’s just doctrinaire. Hadoop, at its core, consists of HDFS (the Hadoop ...