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).

Just about a year ago, I first mentioned TidyFS, a new, small distributed file system under development by Microsoft Research. Later this week at the Usenix '11 conference, Microsoft researchers ...

Big data can mean big threats to security, but BlueTalon just launched what it calls the first-ever filtering and dynamic masking capabilities for use directly on the Hadoop Distributed File ...

SAP is using the Hadoop distro vendor MapR's file system in its cloud storage layer, and not just for Hadoop/Big Data. Written by Andrew Brust, Contributor April 7, 2017, 9:55 a.m. PT ...

HDP will be a fully open source distribution, including all the components used for a typical Hadoop deployment, including Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), MapReduce, Pig, Hive, HBase and ...