The underlying programming model for MapReduce has been revamped and has changed quite a bit. Chuck Lam, the author of Hadoop in Action Benefits that keep getting better include high levels of ...

In a recent article, I wrote about how you could create a Hadoop cluster within the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. After completing that article, it occurred to me that it might be useful for to ...

It’s been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a rack of computers. The buzzword is now well known to your boss but still just a vague and ...

Amazingly, Hadoop has been redefined in the space of a year. Let's take a look at all the salient parts of this roiling ecosystem and what they mean The biggest thing you need to know about Hadoop is ...