Quantcast, an internet audience measurement and ad targeting service, processes over 20 petabytes of data per day using Apache Hadoop and its own custom file system called Quantcast File System (QFS).

Big data can mean big threats to security, thanks to the tempting volumes of information that may sit waiting for hackers to peruse. BlueTalon hopes to tackle that problem with what it calls the first ...

Yahoo has spun off its internal Hadoop development team into an independent company, named Hortonworks. The company, which counts both Yahoo and Benchmark Capital as investors, was announced on ...

Listen in on any conversation about big data, and you’ll probably hear mention of Hadoop or Apache Spark. Here’s a brief look at what they do and how they compare. 1: They do different things. Hadoop ...