Apache Parquet, which provides columnar storage in Hadoop, is now a top-level Apache Software Foundation (ASF)-sponsored project, paving the way for its more advanced use in the Hadoop ecosystem.

For several years big data has been nearly synonymous with Hadoop, a relatively inexpensive way to store huge amounts of data on commodity servers. But recently banks have started using an alternative ...

In-memory data systems have have had a panache for several years now. From SAP HANA to Apache Spark, customers and industry watchers have been continually intrigued by systems that can operate on data ...