Snappy compression with Pig and native MapReduce

Assuming you have installed Hadoop on your cluster, if not please follow http://code.google.com/p/hadoop-snappy/ This is the machine config of my cluster nodes, though the steps that follow could be followed with your installation/machine configs pkommireddi@pkommireddi-wsl:/tools/hadoop/pig-0.9.1/lib$ uname -a Linux pkommireddi-wsl 2.6.32-37-generic #81-Ubuntu SMP Fri ...

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 ...