Overheard in the tech blogosphere:

Hadoop

Jun 10 2008   1:53AM GMT

Overheard: Facebook is loving Hadoop



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Open source, Hadoop, Data analytics, data warehousing
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

Nov 17 2007   1:23PM GMT

Overheard: What’s inside IBM’s Blue Cloud



Posted by: Margaret Rouse
Cloud computing, MapReduce, Hadoop, IBM, Google
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