While MapReduce is proprietary technology, the Apache Foundation has implemented its own open source map-reduce framework, called Hadoop. Hadoop is used by Yahoo and many other services whose ...

The builders use openness as a defense for their approach ... purposes and that they have chosen to do this outside the Apache Hadoop community so that they can go as fast as possible.

Enter Apache Hadoop, an open-source framework designed ... Wide Range of Use Cases: Organizations across different industries use Hadoop for diverse purposes, including data warehousing, log ...

“That’s our opportunity and our role and our aspirations — to really bridge the gap and make Apache Hadoop much easier to install, use, and manage in companies around the world ...

We expect these things to use Slider to bridge the gap between a silo that they live in today to run natively in Hadoop." Work on Apache Slider has already been going on for the past eight or nine ...

"It’s actually in use in operational environments today ... contributed 84 percent of the lines of code still in the Apache Hadoop "trunk," and this sparked a public back-and-forth between ...

Centrica, the utility whose brands include British Gas and Hive, has deployed a selection of big-data tools in a bid to improve customer satisfaction and business processes. Daljit Rehal, director ...

The future of Hadoop is still very much an open question ... but it is a different model than the preferred and fair meritocracy used by the Apache Software Foundation,” Schroeder writes. Those views ...