Having worked on Hadoop since day one in 2006, Hortonworks co-founder Arun Murthy is clear about the significance of the latest version of the open-source big-data technology. "Hadoop 2 is a big step.

Scheduling means different things depending on the audience. To many in the business world, scheduling is synonymous with workflow management. Workflow management is the coordinated execution of a ...

Hortonworks announced that the Apache Spark, a new high-performance analytics engine, is fully enabled for the YARN resource management technology. This means that the Apache Spark can be deployed ...

Today's enterprises are looking to go beyond batch processing and integrate existing applications with Hadoop to realize the benefits of real-time processing and interactive query capabilities.