The underlying programming model for MapReduce has been revamped and has changed quite a bit. Chuck Lam, the author of Hadoop in Action Benefits that keep getting better include high levels of ...

Hadoop encompasses many topics: HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, HBase, Hive, Pig, and a growing ecosystem ... several key pieces of SQL server technology. Mahout is a computation-engine-independent ...

It’s been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a rack of computers. The buzzword is now well known to your boss but still just a vague ...

Cloudera’s distribution of Hadoop uses Pig and Hive as analytical languages; Forrester lists it under Hadoop’s “modeling and development” layer. Mahout is a data-mining tool. A Mahout is a person who ...

Cloudera’s distribution of Hadoop uses Pig and Hive as analytical languages; Forrester lists it under Hadoop’s “modeling and development” layer. Mahout. A data-mining tool. A Mahout is a person who ...

You'll hear it mentioned often, along with associated technologies such as Hive and Pig. But what does it do, and why do you need all its strangely-named friends, such as Oozie, Zookeeper and Flume?

This module will teach you how to use Hive for data summarization, querying, and analysis. 5. Apache Pig : Apache Pig is a high-level platform for creating programs that run on Hadoop.

Judd Bagley set out to build a web app that would serve up a never-ending stream of news stories tailored to your particular tastes. And he did. It's called MyCurrent. But in building this clever ...

Microsoft's also throwing in Hive, Pig, Mahout, Sqoop, HedWig, Pegasus and HBase. (The last of these is no small feat for the creator of SQL Server).