Scientists and mathematicians have long loved Python as a vehicle for working with data and automation. Python has not lacked for libraries such as Hadoopy or Pydoop to work with Hadoop, but those ...
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Hadoop has been known as MapReduce running on HDFS, but with YARN, Hadoop 2.0 broadens pool of potential applications Hadoop has always been a catch-all for disparate open source initiatives that ...
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 ...
Although not immediately obvious, C++ is used in Big Data along with Java, MapReduce, Python, and Scala. For example, if you’re using a Hadoop framework, it will be implemented in Java, but MapReduce ...
When the Big Data moniker is applied to a discussion, it’s often assumed that Hadoop is, or should be, involved. But perhaps that’s just doctrinaire. Hadoop, at its core, consists of HDFS (the Hadoop ...
The USPTO awarded search giant Google a software method patent that covers the principle of distributed MapReduce, a strategy for parallel processing that is used by the search giant. If Google ...