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Tag: Hadoop

  • Oracle doing Hadoop and NoSQL

    Oracle docs show plans for Hadoop, NoSQL about the Oracle Loader for Hadoop, and Added Session: Big Data Appliance about Oracle’s Big Data Appliance.

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  • Hadoop Update

    There are a few articles collecting dust in my feed reader from a period a couple months ago when I didn’t have much time staying up to date on what’s happening… here’s the rundown of the most important stuff about Hadoop. What Factors Justify the Use of Apache Hadoop? Hadoop Appliances? Hardware for Hadoop Why…

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  • NoSQL Updates

    There’s a lot going on in the NoSQL world, or maybe Derrick Harris was just exceptionally busy last night… EMC throws lots of hardware at Hadoop DataStax gets $11M, fuses NoSQL and Hadoop Neo raises $10.6M for Neo4j as graph DBs take off NoSQL Database Company Neo Technology Raises $10.6 Million Wow!

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  • Funding for Platfora, Analytics Platform for Hadoop

    Andreessen Horowitz Leads $5.7M Round In Analytics Platform For Hadoop Data Platfora: Platfora works with existing Hadoop clusters, including Cloudera, MapR, and Amazon EMR, among others, and automatically turns these huge amounts of data into dimensional and predictive dashboards, reports and insights. The company’s server architecture enables sub-second report delivery, analytics overlay, and drill down…

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  • Forthcoming Oracle Appliances

    Curt Monash about Forthcoming Oracle appliances, based on information from Oracle’s earnings call (full transcript) last week. There will be an IMDB appliance based on TimesTen for high speed analytics, and a Hadoop appliance for MapReduce jobs, targetted at data preprocessing and feeding into Oracle. It really looks like Oracle is full steam ahead on…

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  • Greenplum to have it’s own Hadoop Distribution

    Reported and analysed by Tony Baer in OnStrategies Perspectives, and reported by Derrick Harris in GigaOm’s in EMC, NetApp Make It a Big Day for Big Data Star Hadoop, we learn that EMC is using the on-going EMC World conference to its potential, and is announcing that they’re growing the Database division with the decision…

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  • Yahoo Mulls Spinoff for Hadoop Software Unit

    Yahoo is considering to turn Hadoop into a business, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Ovum’s Tony Baer has a more detailed analysis at his blog in Yahoo to Hadoop: Show me the Money. In the long run, we also expect IBM to make a stab at Hadoop and related technologies by extending its…

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  • Structure Big Data Roundup

    Good number of articles from Derrick Harris over at GigaOm rounding up the Structure Big Data Conference. First, there’s a look at Hadoop, Cloudera, and alternatives to Cloudera from IBM, DataStax, Hadapt etc. in As Big Data Takes Off, the Hadoop Wars Begin, and second there’s a piece about Why Big Data Startups Should Take…

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  • Cloudera’s Olson Says Data Will Transform Industry

    Great Bloomberg interview with Cloudera CEO Mike Olson on open source and big data. Via the 451 group

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  • Meet Mapr, a Competitor to Hadoop Leader Cloudera

    Meet Mapr, a Competitor to Hadoop Leader Cloudera. They are said to be building a proprietary replacement for the Hadoop  Distributed File System that’s allegedly three times faster than the  current open-source version. It comes with snapshots and no NameNode  single point of failure (SPOF), and is supposed to be API-compatible  with HDFS, so it…

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