That uncharacteristically overt operation raised a few eyebrows, although in fairness to the NSA it was not its first gift of technology to the open-source community. It had contributed the Accumulo ...

Last month I wrote about Apache Ni-Fi, a project borne of (non-shady) work at the US National Security Agency, and now a top-level project at the Apache Software Foundation. NiFi is all about building ...

In a move that sets the stage for the next evolution of Hadoop, Hortonworks this week announced it will acquire Onyara, a major contributor to an open source Apache NiFi project dedicated to creating ...

Hortonworks, a publicly traded company selling a commercial distribution of the Hadoop open-source big data software, announced today that it has acquired Onyara, an early-stage startup whose ...

Hortonwork Inc.’s latest acquisition is bound to make some waves in the industry. The purchase follows the same pattern as the previous two, a small startup that has been in operation for barely a few ...

COMPANY NEWS: Cloudera, the data company for trusted enterprise AI, today announced Cloudera Flow Management - Kubernetes Operator and Cloudera Streaming - Kubernetes Operator, allowing customers to ...

The code to integrate Apache NiFi with Apache Pulsar is now open source, Cloudera and StreamNative announced today. The integration could be a boon for companies looking to simplify the development of ...

I'm trying to determine if this flow-based programming paradigm is good for us. We're going to, soon, be inundated with multiple different "streams" of inbound data in multiple formats and there are ...