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Cloudera Articulates a ‘Data Hub’ Future for Hadoop

The evolution of Hadoop from an overflow parking lot for data into a field of analytic dreams is unfolding right before our eyes. Among the vendors trying to help the elephant along is Cloudera, which used the Strata +Hadoop World conference this week to lay out its plans to remake Hadoop as a centralized "data hub" for enterprises. The firm also launched betas for its Hadoop 2 distributions, a partnership with the company behind Apache Spark, and a new cloud program for partners. Read more…

HDP 2.0: Rise of the Hadoop Data Lake

Hortonworks became the first Hadoop distributor to ship the new Hadoop version 2 software today when it announced the general availability of Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.0. The update will enable customers with small Hadoop clusters to upgrade their big data platform into a shared Hadoop service, or a data lake, a Hortonworks executive explains. Read more…

Kiji Opens the Big Data Kimono with ‘Chirashi’

The folks behind the Kiji Project have shipped a new release of the open source big data kit, the “Chirashi” release of its Kiji Bentobox, that should make it easier to build big data applications on Hadoop and HBase. Read more…

A Tale of Two Hadoop Journeys

Hadoop brings different things to different companies. For some, the Hadoop platform provides a great starting point to begin analyzing large data sets. But for established companies, Hadoop often displaces existing investments in data warehousing and business intelligent tools. Read more…

MapR Gooses HBase Performance in Pursuit of Lightweight OLTP

MapR Technologies claimed this week that the latest update to its high-end Hadoop distribution can run HBase database applications up to 700 percent faster than before, which will pave the way for customers to implement more real-time, transaction-oriented applications in their Hadoop environments. Read more…

NGDATA Nets $3.3 Million, Adds Cutting to Advisory Board

NGDATA announced this week that they’ve taken in a $3.3 million funding round for their Hadoop-based customer intelligence management offering. The company also announced some board member announcements, including the father of Hadoop, Doug Cutting. Read more…

Yahoo! Spinning Continuous Computing with YARN

YARN was the big news this week, with the announcement that the Hadoop resource manager is finally hitting the streets as part of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) “Community Preview.” According to Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz, who spoke at Hadoop Summit this week, Yahoo! has been able to leverage YARN to transform the processing in their Hadoop cluster from simple, stodgy MapReduce, to a nimble micro-batch engine processing machine – a change which they refer to as “continuous computing.” Read more…

MapR Revs HBase with M7; Plots Search Integration

This week, MapR Technologies announced that their HBase-infused M7 is now being pressed into production, and dispensed details of their integration of search technology with partner, LucidWorks - a project that is currently in beta. Read more…

How Facebook Fed Big Data Continuuity

We recently sat down with Jonathan Gray, who helped build some of the complex HBase infrastructure at Facebook that powered real-time services, including its Messages service, about what was needed to make Hadoop and HBase robust, flexible and consumable for Facebook--and now, through his startup Continuuity, for smaller companies that have big data.... Read more…

Nine Databases in 45 Minutes

Miles Pomeroy, Chad Maughan, and Jonathan Geddes run through each database in five minutes each, thus the title, "9 Databases in 45 minutes." The video proceeds in efficient and occasionally amusing fashion, where a countdown clock and a gong keep the presentations terse. Read more…

Cloudera Runs Real-Time with Impala

This week at Strata Hadoop World we sat down Cloudera CEO, Mike Olson, to talk about the company's recent open sourced effort to add a real-time aspect to Hadoop, thus taking it beyond its batch-only roots. We also hit on emerging issues in the ecosystem, including how their competitive advantages stack up against others in the... Read more…

MapR Traces New Routes for HBase

This week we spent time with MapR during an event pre-Strata hosted with Google to understand why, HBase is a natural target area since it’s becoming a stable part of many production environments. The company says that around 40% of Hadoop users opt for.... Read more…

Cloudera CTO Reflects on Hadoop Underpinnings

“All of this data felt like an ocean and all these technologies only offered a small straw. We don’t want to use a straw, we want to jump in and swim in the ocean,” remarked Cloudera’s Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer Amr Awadallah during a recent... Read more…

HBase Rival Steps Out of the Shadows

With the claim that their database, which is modeled after Google's own Bigtable in-house scalable DB, can bring along massive efficiencies over HBase, one open source database startup is finding a way to fit into the existing big data... Read more…

MapR Update Extends Hadoop Accessibility

This week MapR Technologies, announced a new version of its Hadoop distribution, including several bug fixes as well as new accessibility options. Among these are the ability to try a virtual MapR cluster as well as expanded application opportunities. Read more…

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