Facebook Graph: More Than a Trillion Edges Served

With more than a billion subscribers and hundreds of billions of connections among them, Facebook has a pretty big stockpile of user information, which it is opening up to outside developers to mine through its Facebook Graph service. And because the new service is based on Apache's Giraph, the social media giant shouldn't have to worry about scalability anytime soon. Read more…

Stinger Looking to Tez to Cross 100x Performance Line for Hive

In an effort to put some real-time sting into Apache Hive, a coalition of developers announced project “Stinger” earlier this year - an effort aimed at a 100x increase in Hive’s performance. Currently in phase two of the effort, the group says that they’ve made significant progress, with more on the way - that more, being Apache Tez. Read more…

Cloudera Releases Impala Into the Wild

The week, Cloudera announced that Impala, their SQL on Hadoop initiative, is moving out of public beta and into general availability. Datanami spoke with Cloudera to get an overview of the state of Impala, how they see it stacking up in the competitive landscape, and where the space will move in the near future. Read more…

Putting Some Real Time Sting into Hive

A coalition of Hive community enthusiasts report that they have achieved a 45x performance increase for Apache Hive through an effort they have branded “The Stinger Initiative.” The group says they are aiming at 100x improvement. Read more…

Intel Hitches Xeon to Hadoop Wagon

No longer content to sit on the sidelines of major Hadoop events, Intel has unveiled its strategy to tap into the momentum around the open source platform with its own purpose-built distribution. Read more…

Spelunking Shops and Supercomputers

While this might come as a surprise to those outside the bubble, the majority of data that is collected within an enterprise setting is machine-generated. In other words, everything from operational data (messaging, web services, networking and other system data) to customer-facing systems and beyond. This week we talk with Splunk about its role in IT shops to supercomputers and... Read more…

Inside Illinois’ Big Data Research Facility

The University of Illinois has become the recipient of a new learning center with the help of an analytics company. The school, which is already home to one ultra-analytics claim to fame, the Blue Waters supercomputer, is.... Read more…