Seven Thoughts on Hadoop’s Seventh Birthday
On this special April 1 – the seven-year anniversary of the Apache Hadoop project’s first release – Hadoop founder Doug Cutting (also Cloudera’s chief architect and the Apache Software Foundation...
View ArticleIt’s Only Rock and Roll
It’s only Rock and Roll, but I like it! – Mick Jagger Copyright is having a tough time in the digital age. New copies of music, movies and software can be created at near zero cost. Some...
View ArticleIf It’s Tuesday, There Must Be a "Data Ride"
Mark your calendars, all you data cyclists! I’m visiting Paris, London, and Edinburgh this June. When I travel I like to talk to locals. And, wherever I am, I like to bicycle. So, I thought I might...
View ArticleCloudera Search: The Newest Hadoop Framework for CDH Users and Developers
One of the unexpected pleasures of open source development is the way that technologies adapt and evolve for uses you never originally anticipated. Seven years ago, Apache Hadoop sprang from a project...
View ArticleApache Avro: a New Format for Data Interchange
Avro is a recent addition to Apache's Hadoop family of projects. Avro defines a data format designed to support data-intensive applications and provides support for this format in a variety of...
View ArticleData Interoperability with Apache Avro
The ecosystem around Apache Hadoop has grown at a tremendous rate. Folks now can use many different pieces of software to process their large data sets, and most choose to use several of these...
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