Apache Mahout is moving on from MapReduce

28 March 2014

Apache Mahout, a machine learning library for Hadoop since 2009, is joining the exodus away from MapReduce. The project’s community has decided ...

Apache Falcon-Data Governance for Hadoop

27 March 2014

Apache Falcon is a data governance engine that defines, schedules, and monitors data management policies. Falcon allows Hadoop administrators to ...

26 March 2014

BigQuery, Google’s cloud-based tool for quickly analyzing very large datasets, is getting a massive price cut today (up to 85 percent). ...

25 March 2014

Pivotal, an EMC/VMware spin-off that has big plans to deliver big data analytics through platform as a service, has whisked ...

24 March 2014

By Nick Dimiduk In case you haven’t heard, Hadoop2 is on the way! There are loads more new features than I ...

22 March 2014

The HBase BlockCache is an important structure for enabling low latency reads. As of HBase 0.96.0, there are no less ...

21 March 2014

Apache Sentry (incubating) is the Apache Hadoop ecosystem tool for role-based access control (RBAC). In this how-to, I will demonstrate ...

20 March 2014

The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is considered a core component of Hadoop, but it’s not an essential one. Lately, ...

19 March 2014

The current version of Oozie (4.0.0) doesn’t build correctly when you try and target Hadoop 2.2. The Oozie team have ...

18 March 2014

Pivotal, the EMC spin-off company pursuing modern application development in the context of cloud computing and big-data analysis, on Monday ...