A set of announcements from the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) this week provides an interesting view into the world of Big Data and how it is changing. There's news out of the ASF every week, but ...

If big data systems rely on the Apache Parquet open source file format for data processing, attacks may be imminent. A malicious code vulnerability affects Apache Parquet. The column-based open source ...

A proof-of-concept exploit tool has been publicly released for a maximum severity Apache Parquet vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-30065, making it easy to find vulnerable servers. The tool was ...

Apache Parquet, which provides columnar storage in Hadoop, is now a top-level Apache Software Foundation (ASF)-sponsored project, paving the way for its more advanced use in the Hadoop ecosystem.

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Among the many news items that surfaced at AWS re: Invent this year were new features in Amazon Simple Storage ...