Hadoop has been widely embraced for its ability to economically store and analyze large data sets. Using parallel computing techniques like MapReduce, Hadoop can reduce long computation times to hours ...

In what could best be termed a photo finish, Greenplum and Aster Data Systems have both announced that they have integrated MapReduce into their massively parallel processing (MPP) database engines.

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 123, No. 901 (March 2011), pp. 366-380 (15 pages) ABSTRACT. In the coming decade, astronomical surveys of the sky will generate tens of ...

Cloudera, an open source startup working to expand the use of Apache Hadoop, made two announcements today. First, it has secured $5 million in Series A funding. Second, the Cloudera Distribution for ...

In this video from the PBS User Group 2013, Jeffrey Denton from Clemson University presents: Using PBS and myHadoop to Schedule Hadoop MapReduce Jobs Accessing a Persistent OrangeFS Installation.