What are some of the cool things in the 2.0 release of Hadoop? To start, how about a revamped MapReduce? And what would you think of a high availability (HA) implementation of the Hadoop Distributed ...

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The next generation of Apache Hadoop, the software implementation that allows batch processing of petabytes of data, is expected out this year, says a Yahoo executive. Todd Papaioannou, vice president ...

The wait for Hadoop 2.0 ended yesterday when the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced the availability of the new big data platform. Among the most anticipated features is the new YARN scheduler ...

The Apache Software Foundation unveiled its latest release of its open source data processing program, Hadoop 2. It runs multiple applications simultaneously to enable users to quickly and efficiently ...

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Hadoop's 2.0 release includes Yarn, a workload manager that could make it much easier to build and run apps on the open source big data platform The latest release of Apache Hadoop code includes a new ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its Elastic Map Reduce platform with a new version of Hadoop and updated support for its data analytics ecosystem. Elastic Map Reduce is AWS platform for ...

A partial graphic showing which Hadoop projects have been upgraded within EMR 5.0.0. (Via AWS.) Amazon Web Services said it has released version 5.0.0 of its Elastic MapReduce (EMR) service, which ...

With the latest update to its Apache Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has provided the possibility of using data processing algorithms beyond the customary MapReduce, the company announced Tuesday.