MariaDB adds NoSQL features to relational database roots
SkySQL has released new versions of MariaDB Enterprise and MariaDB Enterprise Cluster, promising that these editions will combine the consistency of traditional SQL database technology with the scalability of NoSQL.
It’s now almost a year since SkySQL merged with Monty Program, ...
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 ...
Configure Eclipse for MapReduce
1. Download load eclipse Europa or Indigo
2. Download Hadoop eclipse plugin eg: hadoop-eclipse-plugin-1.0.3.jar
3. Copy jar in eclipse plugin folder
4. Open eclipse
5. Add Map/Reduce server
6. Add New DFS Location
Location name: localhost
Map/Reduce Master:
port: 9001
DFS Master
port: 9000
Finish
7. New -> others -> Map/Reducer Project
-> ...
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 ...
Google Launches BigQuery Streaming For Real-Time, Big-Data Analytics
BigQuery, Google’s cloud-based tool for quickly analyzing very large datasets, is getting a massive price cut today (up to 85 percent). But Google is also adding an important new feature that will make it more competitive with the big data service ...
Pivotal juices Hadoop with in-memory database and SQL querying
Pivotal, an EMC/VMware spin-off that has big plans to deliver big data analytics through platform as a service, has whisked the drapes off Pivotal HD 2.0, its commercially supported enterprise-grade distribution of Hadoop.
But Pivotal's ambitions for HD don't simply involve ...
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 ...