by Merv Adrian | March 9, 2013 | 22 Comments
I don’t often do a pure opinion piece but I feel compelled to weigh in on a queston I’ve been asked several times since EMC released its Pivotal HD recently. The question is whether it is somehow inappropriate, even “evil,” for EMC to enter the market without having “enough” committers to open source Apache projects. [...]
Category: Apache Big Data Cassandra EMC Hadoop Lucene MapR open source Tags: Apache, big data, Cassandra, EMC, Hadoop, MapR, OSS
by Merv Adrian | February 23, 2013 | 4 Comments
In the first two posts in this series, I talked about performance and projects as key themes in Hadoop’s watershed year. As it moves squarely into the mainstream, organizations making their first move to experiment will have to make a choice of platform. And – arguably for the first time in the early mainstreaming of an information [...]
Category: Amazon Apache Aster Big Data BigInsights Cisco Cloudera data warehouse appliance Elastic MapReduce EMC Gartner graph databases Hadoop HP IBM MapReduce NetApp Oracle Teradata Yarc Tags: Amazon, Apache, Aster, big data, Cisco, Cloudera, Elastic MapReduce, EMC, EMR, graph database, Hadoop, HP, IBM, MapReduce, NetApp, Oracle, Teradata, Yarc
by Merv Adrian | February 21, 2013 | 1 Comment
In Part One of this series, I pointed out that how significant attention is being lavished on performance in 2013. In this installment, the topic is projects, which are proliferating precipitously. One of my most frequent client inquiries is “which of these pieces make Hadoop?” As recently as a year ago, the question was pretty simple for [...]
Category: Accumulo Ambari Apache Apache Drill Apache Yarn BigInsights Cassandra Cloudera Dataguise EMC Gartner Giraph graph databases Hadapt Hadoop Hbase HCatalog HDFS Hive Hortonworks Hstreaming IBM InfoSphere Lucense MapReduce Mshout Oozie open source Pig Rainstor Serengeti Solr SQLstream Sqoop VMware Zookeeper Tags: Apache, BigInsights, Cassandra, Cloudera, Flume, Hadapt, Hadoop, Hbase, HDFS, Hive, Hortonworks, Hstreaming, IBM, InfoSphere, MapR, MapReduce, Oozie, Pig, SQLStream, Sqoop, zookeeper
by Merv Adrian | February 16, 2013 | 11 Comments
It’s no surprise that we’ve been treated to many year-end lists and predictions for Hadoop (and everything else IT) in 2013. I’ve never been that much of a fan of those exercises, but I’ve been asked so much lately that I’ve succumbed. Herewith, the first of a series of posts on what I see as [...]
Category: Big Data BigInsights Cloudera EMC Hadoop Hbase HDFS Hortonworks IBM MapReduce Sqoop Tags: Apache, BigInsights, Cloudera, EMC, Flume, Hadoop, Hbase, HDFS, Hive, Hortonworks, IBM, MapR, MapReduce, Pig, Sqoop, zookeeper
