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 ...

Apache HBase describes itself as “the Hadoop database,” which can be a bit confusing, as Hadoop is typically understood to refer to the popular MapReduce processing framework. But Hadoop is really an ...

I recently spent an evening with the Qubit braintrust in the Ace Hotel in Manhattan, NYC’s little piece of San Francisco. Amid the constellation of glowing Apple logos on the laptops in the common ...