What are some of the cool things in the 2.0 release of Hadoop? To start, how about a revamped MapReduce? And what would you think of a high availability (HA) implementation of the Hadoop Distributed ...

The Apache Software Foundation unveiled its latest release of its open source data processing program, Hadoop 2. It runs multiple applications simultaneously to enable users to quickly and efficiently ...

The next generation of Apache Hadoop, the software implementation that allows batch processing of petabytes of data, is expected out this year, says a Yahoo executive. Todd Papaioannou, vice president ...

Hadoop's 2.0 release includes Yarn, a workload manager that could make it much easier to build and run apps on the open source big data platform The latest release of Apache Hadoop code includes a new ...

MapReduce developers face a steep learning curve when first deploying and configuring a Hadoop cluster and later when verifying program correctness. Compounded by long execution times (measured in ...

When your data and work grow, and you still want to produce results in a timely manner, you start to think big. Your one beefy server reaches its limits. You need a way to spread your work across many ...

The Apache Software Foundation unveiled its latest release of its open source data processing program, Hadoop 2. It runs multiple applications simultaneously to enable users to quickly and efficiently ...