In a world of real-time data, why are we still so fixated on Hadoop? Hadoop, architected around batch processing, remains the poster child for big data, though its outsized reputation still ...

Strata + Hadoop World: Cloudera introduces RecordService for security, Kudu for streaming data analysis Cloudera announces access control layer and columnar storage engine for Hadoop.

Splunk integrates its own code with Hadoop MapReduce, allowing in-place analysis of Hadoop data.

Apache Hadoop users will soon be able to analyze data as it is streamed from its source, thanks to a partnership between data-warehouse software provider Informatica and Hadoop distributor MapR.