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The lure of using big data for your business is a strong one, and there is no brighter lure these days than Apache Hadoop, the scalable data storage platform that lies at the heart of many big ...

To better cope with the ever-rising amount of data it processes, Concurrent started using Hadoop CDH from Cloudera two years ago. “Hadoop is the iron hammer we use for taking down big data ...

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DataStax markets the DataStax Enterprise big data platform that combines the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database with Hadoop and Apache Solr, the latter an open-source enterprise search technology.