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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to an impressive grab bag of improvements in version 2.0, Spark's quasi-streaming solution has become more powerful and easier to manage Flink and Dataflow bring new innovations and target some ...