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Hadoop Alternative Hydra Re-Spawns as Open Source

It may not have the name recognition or momentum of Hadoop. But Hydra, the distributed task processing system first developed six years ago by the social bookmarking service maker AddThis, is now available under an open source Apache license, just like Hadoop. And according to Hydra's creator, the multi-headed platform is very good at some big data tasks that the yellow pachyderm struggles with--namely real-time processing of very big data sets. Read more…

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