A set of announcements from the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) this week provides an interesting view into the world of Big Data and how it is changing. There's news out of the ASF every week, but ...

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.

Will Apache Parquet be the "next big thing" in the Big Data/Hadoop ecosystem? It was only 14 months ago that the Apache Spark project was graduated to a top-level project by Hadoop steward Apache ...

Researchers claim Apache Parquet was carrying a maximum-severity flaw It allows threat actors to run arbitrary code A patch was released, and users are urged to apply it Apache Parquet, a columnar ...

There are significant performance optimizations available for systems that consume and process primarily analytical data, but seldom are software applications written in a way that can take advantage ...

Atigeo™, a technology company and developer of the xPatterns® big data analytics platform and cyber and healthcare analytics solutions, has migrated enterprise-grade Apache Spark 1.6 to its platform ...