How To Choose The Best Tool For Your Big Data Project
By Angus Kidman
Trying to choose the right tool for a big data project? This chart (and three simple rules) can help guide you through the options.
This chart is based on one shown by Microsoft Research senior research program manager Wenming ...
Impala and SQL on Hadoop
The origins of Impala can be found in F1 – The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google’s Ad Business.
One of many differences between MapReduce and Impala is in Impala the intermediate data moves from process to process directly instead of storing it ...
Selecting the right SQL-on-Hadoop engine to access big data
With SQL-on-Hadoop technologies, it's possible to access big data stored in Hadoop by using the familiar SQL language. Users can plug in almost any reporting or analytical tool to analyze and study the data. Before SQL-on-Hadoop, accessing big data was ...
A guide to NoSQL offerings
Amazon Web Services: DynamoDB is a NoSQL database service that makes it simple and cost-effective to store and retrieve any amount of data and serve any level of request traffic. Users simply tell the service how many requests need to ...
Apache Mahout is moving on from MapReduce
Apache Mahout, a machine learning library for Hadoop since 2009, is joining the exodus away from MapReduce. The project’s community has decided to rework Mahout to support the increasingly popular Apache Spark in-memory data-processing framework, as well as the H2O engine for ...
Apache Falcon-Data Governance for Hadoop
Apache Falcon is a data governance engine that defines, schedules, and monitors data management policies. Falcon allows Hadoop administrators to centrally define their data pipelines, and then Falcon uses those definitions to auto-generate workflows in Apache Oozie.
InMobi is one of ...
How to Contribute to HBase and Hadoop2
By Nick Dimiduk
In case you haven’t heard, Hadoop2 is on the way! There are loads more new features than I can begin to enumerate, including lots of interesting enhancements to HDFS for online applications like HBase. One of the most ...
HBase BlockCache Showdown
The HBase BlockCache is an important structure for enabling low latency reads. As of HBase 0.96.0, there are no less than three different BlockCache implementations to choose from. But how to know when to use one over the other? There’s ...
Apache Tez 0.3 Released
The Apache Tez community has voted to release 0.3 of the software.
Apacheâ„¢ Tez is a replacement of MapReduce that provides a powerful framework for executing a complex topology of tasks. Tez 0.3.0 is an important release towards making the software ...
Avoiding Split Brainedness in HA Hadoop Clusters
The US Patent Office recently granted Zettaset a patent for the underlying technology in its Hadoop high availability that prevents a "split-brain" situation where multiple master nodes think they're in control of the Hadoop cluster. It's a feather in the ...