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Hadoop isn’t ready for the elephant graveyard
Google might have ditched its old tried and tested formula, but DataTorrents John Fanelli has some choice words for Hadoop detractors.
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Conscious uncoupling
Why it pays to plot new courses for MapReduce
Bill Bain, CEO of in-memory data grid provider ScaleOut Software, expands on the beauty of decoupling from batch, why we should all follow the millisecond rule, and more.
ETL the easy way
Moving Data from Hadoop into Solr or Data Warehouses
Clouderas Wolfgang Hoschek introduces a new open source library, Morphlines, for creating MapReduce pipelines with minimum fuss.
The elephant is welcome in the room
MongoDB boosts Hadoop capabilities with Apache Hive upgrade
The two darlings of Big Data have moved even closer together after 10gen added a raft of improvements for their Hadoop connector for MongoDB.
The elephant is welcome in the room
MongoDB boosts Hadoop capabilities with Apache Hive upgrade
The two darlings of Big Data have moved even closer together after 10gen added a raft of improvements for their Hadoop connector for MongoDB.
Laying the groundwork
Hadoop column storage format Parquet now generally available
Thanks to Twitter and Clouderas efforts, Hadoop has a new storage format ready-made for analytic processing.
Eyes on HAWQ
Pivotal ship Hadoop distro complete with worlds fastest SQL query engine
After rigorous testing, the company spun out of VMware and EMC technologies have made their Hadoop stack available for download. But what makes it stand out?
At the summit
Hortonworks show YARN future Hadoop with HDP 2.0 preview
The Palo Alto company look in rude health following Hadoop Summit, thanks to a welcome update for HDP 2.0
Fabric softener
Continuuity release Weave to help Hadoop YARN devs
The components of Hadoop 2.0 are coming together nicely. Continuuity aim to make the learning curve easier for YARN with their newest tool.
One to Watch
Graph processing Apache Giraph hits 1.0 – will it follow in Hadoops footsteps?
Already used by social networking giants Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, is Apache Giraph set to lead the charge for scalable social graphs?
Sting in the tail?
Hortonworks announce Stinger to solve Hadoops real-time headache
With their competition placing faith in new solutions, the Yahoo spinoff opt to renovate and improve Hadoop veteran Hive.
Hadoop's supporting cast
Hortonworks put faith in open source management tool Apache Ambari
The latest Hortonworks Data Platform brings an important Hadoop management tool for novices. Could it give them the edge over other Hadoop vendors?
The Holy Grail for Data?
JAX London 2012 – Unlocking the Power of Big Data with Apache Hadoop
The creator of Hadoop, Doug Cutting talks about the evolution of the project from purely an open source project to one of the most important technologies of the last 30 years. He looks at the changes taking place in the economics of large scale computing and what is possible with data, focusing on how integration with existing IT infrastructure is key to the success of Hadoop and other big data technologies. Doug then discusses how Big Data enables organizations to combine legacy data and new datasets in powerful/innovative ways, with examples for customer analytics, new products/services and real-time processes. Finally he looks at how to become a data driven organisation in the brave new big data world, where large scale analytics are made both possible and economica
