
BYOH - Hadoop's a Platform. Get Used To It.
by Merv Adrian | October 9, 2013
When is a technology offering a platform? Arguably, when people build products assuming it will be there. Or extend their existing products to support it, or add versions designed to...

Hadoop Summit Recap Part Two - SELECT FROM hdfs WHERE bigdatavendor USING SQL
by Merv Adrian | July 15, 2013
Probably the most widespread, and commercially imminent, theme at the Summit was “SQL on Hadoop.” Since last year, many offerings have been touted, debated, and some have even shipped. In...

Hadoop 2013 - Part Two: Projects
by Merv Adrian | February 21, 2013
In Part One of this series, I pointed out that how significant attention is being lavished on performance in 2013. In this installment, the topic is projects, which are proliferating precipitously. One...