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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hadoop YARN adds more application threads for big data users
Even Hadoop's most enthusiastic proponents might admit that its marriage to MapReduce has limited what the open source technology can do. But with the advent of Hadoop 2 and its key component, the Hadoop YARN resource manager, the distributed processing ...
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 ...
How MapR’s M7 Platform Improves NoSQL and Hadoop
The M7 Edition. Sounds like a high performance sports car, doesn’t it? In reality, M7 is MapR’s enterprise-grade platform that provides its own unique brand of high-performance, dependability and ease of use to both NoSQL and Hadoop applications. M7 removes ...
MariaDB-An Open Source Alternative and Replacement of MySQL
MySQL was the best open source database in the market before Sun Microsystems purchased it. After this, Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems and MySQL came in the hands of Oracle. After this purchase a fair number of MySQL users started looking ...
How YARN Opens Doors to Easier Programming Tools for Hadoop 2.0 Users
The emergence of YARN for the Hadoop 2.0 platform has opened the door to new tools and applications that promise to allow more companies to reap the benefits of big data in ways never before possible with outcomes possibly never ...