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 ...
What Can GPFS on Hadoop Do For You?
The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is considered a core component of Hadoop, but it’s not an essential one. Lately, IBM has been talking up the benefits of hooking Hadoop up to the General Parallel File System (GPFS). IBM has ...
Hadoop Alternative Hydra Re-Spawns as Open Source
It may not have the name recognition or momentum of Hadoop. But Hydra, the distributed task processing system first developed six years ago by the social bookmarking service maker AddThis, is now available under an open source Apache license, just ...
Hadoop and NoSQL Now Data Warehouse-Worthy-Gartner
Not long ago, the rules for what constituted a data warehouse were fairly well defined. The schema was fixed, you could say, and was based primarily on relational database technology designed to process structured data. My, how times have changed. ...
Big Workflow-The Future of Big Data Computing
How can organizations embrace — instead of brace for — the rapidly intensifying collision of public and private clouds, HPC environments and Big Data? The current go-to solution for many organizations is to run these technology assets in siloed, specialized ...