Cascading 3.0 Future-Proofs Data-Centric Application Development on Hadoop
Concurrent, Inc., the company behind Cascading, an open source application development framework for building data applications on Hadoop, has announced Cascading 3.0, which CEO Gary Nakamura says will give enterprises the flexibility to build their data-oriented applications on Hadoop once, and ...
5 technologies that will help big data cross the chasm
We’re on the cusp of a real turning point for big data. Its applications are becoming clearer, its tools are getting easier and its architectures are maturing in a hurry. It’s no longer just about log files, clickstreams and tweets. ...
How to Run a Simple Apache Spark App in CDH 5
Getting started with Spark (now shipping inside CDH 5) is easy using this simple example.
Apache Spark is a general-purpose, cluster computing framework that, like MapReduce in Apache Hadoop, offers powerful abstractions for processing large datasets. For various reasons pertaining to ...
Apache Spark is now part of MapR’s Hadoop distribution
Hadoop vendor MapR is getting in early on the Apache Spark action, too, announcing on Thursday that it’s adding the Spark stack to its Hadoop distribution as part of a partnership with Spark startup Databricks (Ion Stoica, the co-founder and CEO of ...
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 ...
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 Spark-3 Real-World Use Cases
By Alex Woodie
The Hadoop processing engine Spark has risen to become one of the hottest big data technologies in a short amount of time. And while Spark has been a Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation for barely a ...
Why Apache Spark is a Crossover Hit for Data Scientists
Spark is a compelling multi-purpose platform for use cases that span investigative, as well as operational, analytics.
Data science is a broad church. I am a data scientist — or so I’ve been told — but what I do is actually ...
Vital Hadoop tools for crunching Big Data
Today, the most popularly term in IT world is ‘Hadoop’. Within a short span of time, Hadoop has grown massively and has proved to be useful for a large collection of diverse projects. The Hadoop community is fast evolving and ...