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As readers of our previous post on the subject will recall, ZooKeeper is a distributed coordination service suitable for implementing coordination primitives like locks and concurrent queues. One of ZooKeeper’s great strengths is its ability to operate at scale. ......

At Cloudera, we’re always working to make it easier for you to work with Hadoop and integrate Hadoop-based systems in with your existing data sources. ......

Today’s Hadoop World talk comes from Owen O’Malley and talks about some of the biggest challenges facing Hadoop: Security and API Compatibility. Over the past several months, Yahoo! has been leading the charge in both areas. This work will enable wider use of Hadoop within Yahoo! as......

Today’s Hadoop World talk comes from Deepak Singh of Amazon Web Services. Prior to AWS, Deepak spent his entire career in the bioinformatics community. This talk goes into many of the challenges facing this community and shows how Hadoop and Elastic Computing change the game. Thanks Deepak!

Today’s Hadoop World talk comes from Jonathan Gray at Streamy and Ryan Rawson at StumbleUpon. Jonathan and Ryan go into detail about how you can get the most from your HBase installation. Jonathan, Ryan, thank you! ......

Today’s Hadoop World talk comes from Omer Trajman at Vertica. He goes into detail about how Hadoop complements Vertica’s column-oriented analytic database. Our thanks to Omer — and stay tuned for more!

Today’s Hadoop World talk comes from Stuart Sierra at Columbia University and Tim Dysinger at Sonian Networks. Unfortunately Tim couldn’t make the talk, so Stuart covered for him. S......

Today’s Hadoop World talk comes from Paul Brown at Booz Allen. He goes into detail about how Hadoop is used for bioinformatics and protein alignment. Our thanks to Paul — and stay tuned for more!

This summer I sent the following tweet, “Had lunch today at Twitter HQ. Thanks for the invite, @kevinweil! Great lunch conversation. Smart, friendly and fun team.” Kevin Weil leads the analytics team at Twitter and is an active member of the Hadoop community. Ne......

Today’s Hadoop World talk comes from Ashish Thusoo at Facebook and goes into detail about how Facebook uses Hadoop and Hive to expose massive volumes of data to their internal users familiar with traditional data warehousing tools. Thanks Ashish, and stay tuned for more!

Today’s Hadoop World video comes from Ed Capriolo, and goes into details about how to effectively monitor Hadoop in production environments. Thanks Ed, and stay tuned for more!

Avro is a recent addition to Apache’s Hadoop family of projects. Avro defines a data format designed to support Big Data applications, and provides support for this format in a variety of programming languages. ......

It has been almost a month since Hadoop World: NYC, and things are just starting to get back to normal here at Cloudera HQ. We were thrilled to see over 500 Apache Hadoop enthusiasts descend upon New York City for the first major Big Data event on the East Coast......

Around the world, individuals contribute to Hadoop and build community around the technology. This kind of collaboration is at the heart of open source software, and here at Cloudera, we feel privileged to be a part of the Apache Hadoop community......