Hadoop has been known as MapReduce running on HDFS, but with YARN, Hadoop 2.0 broadens pool of potential applications Hadoop has always been a catch-all for disparate open source initiatives that ...

In this video from the PBS User Group 2013, Jeffrey Denton from Clemson University presents: Using PBS and myHadoop to Schedule Hadoop MapReduce Jobs Accessing a Persistent OrangeFS Installation.

Karmasphere Studio Community Edition is a graphical environment to develop, debug, deploy and visualize MapReduce jobs. It accelerates the development process for experienced Hadoop developers and ...

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Hadoop has been widely embraced for its ability to economically store and analyze large data sets. Using parallel computing techniques like MapReduce, Hadoop can reduce long computation times to hours ...

Facebook has shared some more behind-the-scenes information about just how the social network is built, this time centered around the enormous amount of data that it collects. Over half a petabyte of ...

Now that many organizations see the utility in big data, BMC Software has provided a way to incorporate jobs from the Hadoop data processing platform into larger enterprise workflows. “We provide a ...

What's been lacking is a service that offers a generic Hadoop and Spark environment on the one hand, and a job-oriented pricing model and user interface on the other. But this morning, at its Strata ...

An open source tool released last by LinkedIn developers is intended to help Hadoop and Spark users analyze, tune and improve the performance of their workflows. The self-service performance-tuning ...

With the latest update to its Apache Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has provided the possibility of using data processing algorithms beyond the customary MapReduce, the company announced Tuesday.