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In this brave new world of big data, a database technology called “Bigtable” would seem to be worth considering — particularly if that technology is the creation of engineers at Google, a company that ...

The cloud-based Big Data service, Microsoft Azure HDInsight, now supports Apache HBase clusters. Microsoft announced a technology preview of the Hadoop component just days after announcing HDInsight ...

HBase is an open-source, nonrelational, distributed database that is modeled after Google’s BigTable and written in Java. It was developed as part of Apache Software Foundation’s Apache Hadoop project ...

Apache HBase describes itself as “the Hadoop database,” which can be a bit confusing, as Hadoop is typically understood to refer to the popular MapReduce processing framework. But Hadoop is really an ...

NoSQL databases are becoming increasingly popular for analyzing big data. There are very few NoSQL solutions, however, that provide the combination of scalability, reliability and data consistency ...

Code submitted this week for inclusion in the Hadoop stack will help speed the spread of the distributed big-data platform, according to Hortonworks co-founder Arun Murthy. The submission of the ...

A database technology called Bigtable that search engine giant Google launched internally more than a decade ago and has spent the ensuing years perfecting as the underpinning of its search engine and ...

Big Data is emerging as an important tool to help organizations learn more about their business operations, product performance, and customer purchasing behavior. It is misunderstood by the media ...