Yahoo Releases Open Source Hadoop Distribution 49
ruphus13 writes "Yahoo has been a vociferous Apache Hadoop user and supporter for several years now, and uses it extensively within its Search technologies. Hadoop has been gaining popularity in the Cloud Computing space, with companies like the NYTimes converting 4TB and 11 million articles to PDFs in under 24 hours using Hadoop and EC2 in late 2007. Hadoop has been made available in Amazon's cloud and Yahoo has now released its own Hadoop version. From the article: 'At today's Hadoop Summit in Silicon Valley, Yahoo! announced the availability of the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop, a source-only version of Apache Hadoop that Yahoo! uses within its own search engine. [Hadoop] is an open source software framework that helps process very large data sets, and is widely used in large-scale data mining applications as well as in search tools at sites like Facebook and many others. For developers and users interested in Hadoop, it's worth noting that the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop has been widely tested and developed at Yahoo! for years now.'"
Timely article (Score:3, Informative)
Hadoop is awesome (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Hadoop? (Score:2, Informative)
Its the name of the main developer's kid's toy elephant.
Re:Hadoop is awesome (Score:3, Informative)
"Hive/Hadoop cluster at Facebook stores more than 2PB of uncompressed data and routinely loads 15 TB [facebook.com] of data daily."
Re:Why is this a big deal? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Obligatory Java is Slow Comment (Score:3, Informative)
Java has it's faults but being slow is no longer one of them. You should do some googling.
Re:open source software (Score:3, Informative)
Fail!
ISO 32000-1:2008: PDF [wikipedia.org]
Because stitching together numerous TIFF files on your own is so much better!