Scientists and mathematicians have long loved Python as a vehicle for working with data and automation. Python has not lacked for libraries such as Hadoopy or Pydoop to work with Hadoop, but those ...

Demand for big data skills are on the rise and aren't limited to just NoSQL and Hadoop but also include Python and general cloud skills.

Hadoop application-platform startup Continuuity and AT&T Labs are working on a stream-processing technology called jetStream that they intend to open source by the third quarter of this year.

Strata + Hadoop World: Cloudera introduces RecordService for security, Kudu for streaming data analysis Cloudera announces access control layer and columnar storage engine for Hadoop.

Splunk integrates its own code with Hadoop MapReduce, allowing in-place analysis of Hadoop data.

SQL-based Hadoop (read: Hive) could be used by SQL users, or a new product team could instead use scalding (which the author admits is great) or standard Unix Streaming to achieve results, or a ...