Hadoop has been a Java-centric enterprise since the beginning, meaning anyone with a Python-centric workflow has been forced to deal with the framework at arm’s length or greater.

Adobe Systems is contributing code to the Puppet data center automation and configuration management framework project to manage the open-source Hadoop project.

Along with lifting the lid on the Open Data Platform Hadoop initiative, cloud firm Pivotal is strengthening its ties with Hortonworks and open-sourcing core big-data technology.

Hadoop runs on more than 25,000 servers and analyzes billions of Web pages. Yahoo says its opening up the source code to Hadoop to “increase the pace of innovation around open and collaborative ...

Talend, a provider of open source integration software, has announced the availability of Talend Open Studio for Big Data, to be released under the Apache Software License. Talend Open Studio for Big ...

Talend’s software generates the Java code and, now, the Hadoop code to carry out the defined big-data work.