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May 21 2009   5:00PM GMT

Hadoop - just a storage and batch data processing system



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Hadoop
hadoop “Hadoop is a massively scalable storage and batch data processing system.”

Christophe Bisciglia, 5 Common Questions About Hadoop
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Jun 10 2008   1:53AM GMT

Overheard: Facebook is loving Hadoop



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
data warehousing, Open source, Data analytics, Hadoop
hadoop-logo.jpg Over time, we have added classic data warehouse features like partitioning, sampling and indexing to this environment. This in-house data warehousing layer over Hadoop is called Hive and we are looking forward to releasing an open source version of this project in the near future.

Joydeep Sen Sarma, Hadoop
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Nov 17 2007   1:23PM GMT

Overheard: What’s inside IBM’s Blue Cloud



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
IBM, Google, Cloud computing, Hadoop, MapReduce
erick-schonfeld.jpg “Blue Cloud is based on an open-source project called Hadoop that manages computing resources across large clusters of computers. Hadoop includes an open-source version of MapReduce, the same software Google uses to efficiently distribute its computing chores across its servers around the world.”

Erick Schonfeld, IBM’s Blue Cloud is Web Computing By Another Name
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