Articles having tag: HADOOP

Possible Hadoop Trajectories

According to Michael Stonebraker and Jeremy Kepnerthe future of Hadoop is doomed: Computational space Data Management Adopt Hadoop for pilot projects Adopt Hadoop for pilot projects Scale Hadoop to production use Scale Hadoop to production use Hit...

Hadoop Weaknesses and Where Teradata Aster Sees the Big Data Money

By Alex Popescu

Hadoop Weaknesses and Where Teradata Aster Sees the Big Data Money:An interesting post on Teradata Aster blog which is indirectly emphasizing the weaknesses of the Hadoop platform: Make platform and tools to be easier to use to manage and curate data. Otherwise,...

Explaining Hadoop and Big Data to the C-Suite

By Alex Popescu

Explaining Hadoop and Big Data to the C-Suite:Great introduction to Big Data and Hadoop by Ravi Kalakota starting with an explanation of the market needs and the need for Hadoop, what Hadoop and its ecosystem are, a list of case studies, plus a brief market...

Hadoop: Answering the Basic Questions: Why, What, How, Where

By Alex Popescu

Hadoop: Answering the Basic Questions: Why, What, How, Where:A post on the HP blog answering 5 questions about Hadoop: Why Hadoop? What is Hadoop? What does it do? What is it good for? What's the future? With the current momentum behind Hadoop,...

Hadoop Market in 2016: $813mil

By Alex Popescu

Anew IDC report by Carl Olofson and Dan Vessetputs the Hadoop market in 2016 at $812.8 millions. I don't know how these numbers are calculated, but it feels like a low estimation. Maybe it's the open source origin of Hadoop and the price of the Amazon...

MongoDB Driver Releases: April

By mongodb

We’ve had a big month with updates and improvements to our drivers. \xa0Here's a summary: We released v1.0 of theMongo-Hadoop connector, which provides working input and output adapters for MongoDB onHadoop’s MapReduce. We releasedNode.js...

Notes on the Hadoop and HBase Markets

By Alex Popescu

Notes on the Hadoop and HBase Markets:Curt Monash shares what he heard from his customers: Over half of Cloudera's customers (nb100 subscription customers) use HBase Hortonworks thinks a typical enterprise Hadoop cluster has 20-50 nodes, with 50-100...

Twister: Iterative MapReduce

By Alex Popescu

Created by a team of Ph.D's from the Indiana Univesity,Twisteris a set of extensions to the MapReduce programming model: Distinction on static and variable data Configurable long running (cacheable) map/reduce tasks Pub/sub messaging based communication/data...

NoSQL Releases and Announcements

By Alex Popescu

Catching up after almost two weeks offline is no easy task, but I hope I'll not miss any important events, releases, or posts. But if I do, pleaseemail me. Cassandra 1.0.9: Maintenance Release The complete change notes for Cassandra 1.0.9 arehere: improve...

What Are the Pros and Cons of Running Cloudera's Distribution for Hadoop vs Amazon Elastic MapReduce Service?

By Alex Popescu

Old Quora question, but still very relevant. Top response from Jeff Hammerbacher: Elastic MapReduce Pros: Dynamic MapReduce cluster sizing. Ease of use for simple jobs via their proprietary web console. Great documentation. Integrates nicely with other...