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MapR 5.0 Brings Real-Time to Hadoop Big Data Apps, Searches and More
MapR Technologies' latest update to its Hadoop distro delivers a new level of real-time capabilities to big data apps. Notably, MapR 5.0 supports access to transactional data by auto-synchronizing storage, database and search indices. IDN speaks with …
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LinkedIn open-sources its Groovy Gradle plugin for Hadoop
Hadoop has gotten itself another big-name contributor in the shape of business-oriented social network LinkedIn Corp., which has just made the LinkedIn Gradle Plugin for Apache Hadoop available on GitHub. LinkedIn's Gradle plugin was designed by the …
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Take measured steps to build a Hadoop cluster architecture
What's needed is a focused approach, with measured steps being taken to deploy and expand a Hadoop cluster architecture, according to Raheem Daya, director of product development and manager of the Hadoop platform at RelayHealth, a McKesson …
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Just How Deep is the HPC, Hadoop Chasm?
There has been a great deal of investment and research into making HPC speak Hadoop over the last couple of years. The basic assumption is that if powerful high performance computing hardware can be harnessed to pull Hadoop and MapReduce …
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Does InfiniBand Have a Future on Hadoop?
Hadoop was created to run on cheap commodity computers connected by slow Ethernet networks. But as Hadoop clusters get bigger and organizations press the upper limits of performance, they're finding that specialized gear, such as solid state drives and …
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DataTorrent tackles complexity of Hadoop data ingestion
Working as a component within a Hadoop platform, dtIngest can work with both streaming and batch data. It can exchange data across a variety of file systems and protocols, including NFS, FTP, the Hadoop File System, Amazon Web Service's Simple Storage …
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Yahoo struts its Hadoop stuff
We've heard a lot lately about how Hadoop has stalled. Matt Asay recently cited a Gartner report describing demand for Hadoop as "fairly anemic," while in March InfoWorld blogger James Kobielus pointed to a "puny adoption rate." The problem is, to get …
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Hadoop 101: Simplifying MapReduce Development
hadoop-101 Learning a new development framework takes time, and, as is well known, the Hadoop platform is no exception. MapReduce developers face a steep learning curve when first deploying and configuring a Hadoop cluster and later when verifying …
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Actian DataFlow, the Little Hadoop Engine That Could, But Probably Won't
In Hadoop's ecosystem of massively parallel cluster computing frameworks, Actian DataFlow is an anomaly. It's a powerful little engine that thinks it can take on any data processing problem, no matter the scale. The trouble is that unlike MapReduce …
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Spark 1.2 challenges MapReduce's Hadoop dominance
The first is to shed the straitjacket created by legacy dependencies on the MapReduce framework and move processing to YARN, Tez, and Spark. Gary Nakamura, CEO of data-application infrastructure outfit Concurrent, believes the "proven and reliable" …
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Pentaho Eyes Spark to Overcome MapReduce Limitations
Pentaho today announced it's supporting Apache Spark with its suite of data analytic tools. While supporting Spark gives Pentaho performance advantages over MapReduce when executing data transformations and running queries within Hadoop, the …
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The evolution of the big data platform at Netflix
It has also come a long way from a map-reduce execution engine to a resource management system that can host different data processing engines. My favorite Netflix OSS project in the big data space is Genie. Genie helps abstract the details of running …
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Big Data: 6 Real-Life Business Cases
Here are six examples of how major enterprises are using data to improve their business models. … A 2014 Gartner survey found that 73% of respondents had invested in — or planned to invest in — big data in the next 24 months, up from 64% in 2013.
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HP Launches HPC & Big Data Global Business Unit
HPC will live within HP Enterprise, but perhaps surprisingly not by itself. Instead HPC is being combined with Big Data into a single global business unit, HPC & Big Data, created in March and led by longtime SGI executive and recent HP import, William …
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Hadoop and Big Data Storage: The Challenge of Overcoming the Science Project
About two years ago, I started talking to Fortune 500 companies about their use of tools like Apache Hadoop and Spark to deal with big data in their organizations. I specifically sought out these large enterprises because I expected they would all have …
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