Big Data is not always about Hadoop, and it's not always about new technologies. As Trendspottr shows us, sometimes hardcore algorithms, even older ones, provide new breakthroughs.

Google introduced the MapReduce algorithm to perform massively parallel processing of very large data sets using clusters of commodity hardware. MapReduce is a core Google technology and key to ...

With growth in unstructured big data, RDBMS is inadequate for big data analytics. Know how to use SQL and MapReduce for big data analytics, instead.

Hunk is a relatively new product from Splunk for exploring and visualizing Hadoop and other NoSQL data stores. New in this release is support for Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with data scientist Cathy O'Neil about her new book, Weapons of Math Destruction, which describes the dangers of relying on big data analytics to solve problems.

The solution is a massively parallel database with an integrated analytics engine that leverages the MapReduce framework for large-scale data processing and couples SQL with MapReduce.

New MIT algorithm rubs shoulders with human intuition in big data analysis October 19, 2015 More than 9 years ago Summary ...