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In-memory data model with Apache Gora

2013-06-17T05:35:00.000-07:00

Open source in-memory data model and persistence for big data framework Apache Gora™ version 0.3, was released in May 2013. The 0.3 release offers significant improvements and changes to a number of...

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Beyond NSA, the intelligence community has a big technology footprint

2013-06-10T05:36:00.001-07:00

While all through the past few days the focus has been on NSA activities, the discussion has often veered around the technologies and products used by NSA. At the same time, a side discussion topic...

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Options for MapReduce with HPC

2013-06-03T06:55:00.000-07:00

There has been a strong motivation and desire for co-existence of Hadoop and HPC clusters. While it is true that the HPC world would like to optimize their clusters and leverage MapReduce, it is also...

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Hadoop High 5 with MapR's John Schroeder

2013-05-27T09:47:00.000-07:00

1. Give us a glimpse of your journey with MapR so far. MapR Technologies has experienced major customer acquisition and corporate expansion since I cofounded the company in 2009. MapR is...

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Caching mechanisms in data visualization software

2013-05-20T10:33:00.005-07:00

As the golden boy of data visualization, Tableau Software (NYSE: DATA) made its debut on the stock exchange, it ended day 1 at whopping market capitalization of 2.9 billion $. This emphasized once...

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Anti-Patterns in Big Data convergence with M2M

2013-05-14T09:16:00.001-07:00

It is almost an open secret right now that the next big trend in Big Data space would be the adoption in M2M and ‘Internet of Things’ arena. If any major indicators of the battle that would happen...

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Hadoop's 10 in LinkedIn's 10

2013-05-06T11:37:00.001-07:00

LinkedIn, the pioneering professional social network has turned 10 years old. One of the hallmarks of its journey has been its technical accomplishments and significant contribution to open source,...

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Have you used Lua for MapReduce?

2013-04-29T05:35:00.001-07:00

Lua as a cross platform programming language has been popularly used in games and embedded systems. However, due to its excellent use for configuration, it has found wider acceptance in other user...

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MRQL - a SQL on Hadoop Miracle

2013-04-22T03:59:00.000-07:00

Recently, the Apache Incubator accepted a new query engine for Hadoop and Hama, called MRQL (pronounced miracle), which was initially developed in 2011 by Leonidas Fegaras. MRQL (MapReduce...

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Hadoop use cases in the Bitcoin economy

2013-04-15T04:08:00.001-07:00

Bitcoin as a decentralized P2P virtual currency has become a hot topic of discussion and analysis in the last few months. Due to its unregulated nature and possibility to exchange it for real life...

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Tools and Techniques for Matrix factorization

2013-04-08T04:03:00.000-07:00

Matrix factorization as a technique of Collaborative filtering has been the preferred choice for recommendation systems ever since Netflix million $ competition was held a few years back. Further,...

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YAS - 1000x faster SQL on Hadoop engine

2013-04-01T04:50:00.001-07:00

In a major announcement, hadoopsphere.com today announced the launch of YAS, a modern SQL engine which is 1000x faster than its closest competitor. A: You got it right. This is an...

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Apache Crunch: Laying the pipelines for the Hadoop refinery

2013-03-27T12:57:00.000-07:00

Apache Crunch recently graduated from an incubator to an ASF top level project. Let’s take a better look at this Java library which aims to make writing, testing and running MapReduce pipelines...

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Cloud provisioning with Apache Zookeeper

2013-03-18T07:18:00.001-07:00

A few months back we explored how Java apps could be provisioned on the cloud using YARN. Based on the interest that post generated, let us re-visit the topic and explore provisioning with a...

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Apache Hadoop ecosystem - March 2013

2013-03-12T02:57:00.000-07:00

Apache Hadoop ecosystem continues to evolve at a rapid pace with newer projects that are being added as incubators while those currently under incubation are getting ready to graduate out. Let’s...

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Let the Benchmarking contests begin

2013-03-04T09:27:00.000-08:00

And, you thought your Big Data cluster was faster than your next door competitor. Oh, well… it’s time to prove it, contribute to an initiative and of course, get the honors. A new benchmarking...

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Startup Showcase finalists at Strata 2013

2013-02-25T02:30:00.000-08:00

An overview of finalists at Startup Showcase event of O'Reilly Strata Conference to be held in Santa Clara, CA, USA on February 26, 2013. The finalists this time around include an eclectic...

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Tez - The race for secure low latency Hadoop picks up more speed

2013-02-20T13:30:00.000-08:00

We had been expecting this… honestly, yes. Hortonworks, a Yahoo spin-off for Hadoop, has made the headlines again. So while Marissa Mayer was busy revealing a new version of Yahoo.com home page in a...

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So, what's brewing with HCatalog

2013-02-18T05:03:00.001-08:00

Apache HCatalog announced release of version 0.5.0 in the past week. Along with that, it has initiated steps to graduate from an incubator project to be an Apache Top Level project...

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Data deduplication tactics with HDFS and MapReduce

2013-02-12T09:31:00.002-08:00

As the amount of data continues to grow exponentially, there has been increased focus on stored data reduction methods. Data compression, single instance store and data deduplication are among the...

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Hadoop is hot, Cloudera is 'sexy'

2013-02-04T06:03:00.000-08:00

So, you heard it… Cloudera was the runner-up in ‘Sexiest Enterprise Startup’ category of The Crunchies. The awards were co-hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat and TechCrunch and aimed to...

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5 online tools in data visualization playground

2013-01-30T04:17:00.001-08:00

While building up an analytics dashboard, one of the major decision points is regarding the type of charts and graphs that would provide better insight into the data. To avoid a lot of re-work later,...

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Security Architecture for Apache Hadoop

2013-01-23T05:00:00.000-08:00

Through the years, there has been a clamor and need expressed for robust Apache Hadoop security framework. Considering the massive amount of data that nodes hold, there is an increasing need to focus...

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Revisiting the physician - Hadoop Vaidya

2013-01-14T09:15:00.001-08:00

Performance Management is one of the major grey areas that most teams encounter with Apache Hadoop environment. Among the earliest tools to monitor performance has been Hadoop Vaidya, available as a...

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Big Data forecast digest for 2013 – predictions from Who's Who of industry

2013-01-09T09:59:00.000-08:00

“Predicting the future is … a custom in our industry around this time of the year, and we won’t dodge it.” How apt is this comment from Yves de Montcheuil, VP (Marketing) Talend as it sums up the...

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