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Evolving "Hadoop" Stack Manifests a Community in Motion

by Merv Adrian  |  September 19, 2020

Apache "Hadoop" component activity tells a story of a dynamic community that continues to birth new projects, and incorporate them even as some older ones fade. Of course that extends...

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Hadoop is (still) alive and kicking

by Sanjeev Mohan  |  August 19, 2020

It has been a long time since I blogged and so I joined forces with my colleague and friend Merv Adrian. Here is the first one of the series. It's...

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August 2020 Hadoop Distribution Apache Project Tracker

by Merv Adrian  |  August 19, 2020

Welcome to my co-author, Gartner analyst Sanjeev Mohan It's been an eventful 6 months since Merv published the last of these trackers. The Hadoop ecosystem is far from dead, as...

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Stop Talking About “Hadoop”

by Merv Adrian  |  March 4, 2020

As an analyst, I get many inquiries about Hadoop. Few of them bear much resemblance to the ones I took 5 or 6 years ago. The investor inquiries are similar...

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February 2020 Hadoop Distribution Apache Project Tracker

by Merv Adrian  |  January 14, 2020

Updated 2/15/20 - thank you to HPE for MapR details Until 2018, I published comparisons of the supported versions of components in the multiple available Hadoop distributions. That older series...

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January 2018 Hadoop Tracker

by Merv Adrian  |  January 3, 2018

Last month's update was obsolete before it published. This often happens because of multiple moving parts and my extended gestation period. I needed to correct entries for both AWS and Hortonworks....

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