The quest to replace Hadoop’s aging MapReduce is a bit like waiting for buses in Britain. You watch a really long time, then a bunch come along at once. We already have Tez and Spark in the mix, but ...

Hadoop needs fast and easy-to-use stream processing, and Flink provides that -- but it'll compete with Spark and Storm Apache Flink, a potential contender for Apache Spark’s big-data processing jobs, ...

Streaming is one of the top trends we've been keeping up with. The latest episode in that saga was adding ACID capabilities to Apache Flink, as covered by ZDNet's Tony Baer last week. This ...

Ever since the days of complex event processing, we've been predicting that the future of streaming was bright. Nearly five years ago we stated, "The same data explosion that created the urgency for ...