Henry Newman

Hadoop, HDFS and the MapReduce algorithm are becoming as popular as searching for celebrity gossip, and this surge in interest says a lot about the changing nature of enterprise infrastructure and data and application requirements. We all know that search…

Traditional databases, with index files and table spaces on disk and paging tables into memory, are becoming a thing of the past. Between search engines, which use large clusters of hardware and keep everything in memory, and memory-based databases, which…