Out today, a free MapR-DB developer preview shows how the NoSQL database can now handle JSON documents natively, in a move designed to simplify and speed up big-data app development. The addition of ...

MapR CMO Jack Norris won’t tell us if an IPO is still in the cards this year for his big data crunching startup. But he had plenty to share about the news his company is making at Strata + Hadoop ...

MapR Technologies today announced the availability of a developer preview of its new native JSON support inside Hadoop. This addition gives users access to a document store that can be linked directly ...

In a development that could have major implications for how document databases are deployed across the enterprise, MapR Technologies announced at the Strata + Hadoop World 2015 conference that its ...

The Apache Software Foundation has announced the release of Apache Drill 1.0. Drill is a schema-free SQL query engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and cloud storage that uses columnar execution, data-driven ...

Using Teradata sucks — there, I said it. It’s painful to convene the data committee to deal with adding a column to the data warehouse, then having to do a cost/benefit analysis for every meager ...

Last year at the Strata + Hadoop World in New York City Cloudera co-founder and CTO Mike Olson predicted that Hadoop would disappear and that only one lonely worker in the data center world even know ...