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.

Hortonworks has announced the availability of Hortonworks Data Platform 2.0, a commercial distribution built on the Hadoop 2 GA release from the Apache Software Foundation. Hortonworks Data Platform 2 ...

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 ...

Hadoop has been known as MapReduce running on HDFS, but with YARN, Hadoop 2.0 broadens pool of potential applications Hadoop has always been a catch-all for disparate open source initiatives that ...

Hadoop Summit 2013 kicks off tomorrow and expect YARN to be a major topic of conversation. Three years in the making, YARN is essentially a new operating system for Hadoop that will allow the open ...

Built on Apache Hadoop YARN architecture, HDP 2.0 changes Hadoop from a single-purpose Web-scale batch data processing platform into a multi-use operating system for batch, interactive, online, and ...

For the last interview of our Hadoop Summit 2013 coverage, theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante talked to John Kreisa, VP Strategic Marketing at Hortonworks, asking him what transpired from ...