A while back, Yahoo quietly made the code to Omid, an open source transaction processing system for the Apache HBase Hadoop big data store, available on GitHub. This is the same software the company ...

Facebook announced in a blog post on Thursday that it has upgraded the Apache HBase database with a new open source system called HydraBase. Facebook is an avid HBase shop, using it to store data for ...

OpenLogic released its outlook for the open source movement in the enterprise throughout 2012, leveraging eight different metrics to determine where adoption is going to be high or flat, and where ...

In this brave new world of big data, a database technology called “Bigtable” would seem to be worth considering — particularly if that technology is the creation of engineers at Google, a company that ...