I’m a DBA with a working knowledge of Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL. I have been reading more and more about big data, should I learn Hadoop? First, thank you for emailing your question. The mere ...

When it comes to leveraging existing Hadoop infrastructure to extend what is possible with large volumes of data and various applications, Yahoo is in a unique position–it has the data and just as ...

The IT discipline of machine learning is experiencing a resurgence of popularity, as organizations explore any possible way to leverage their big data stockpiles for a competitive advantage. One ...

Looking for a fun side project this winter? Jamie Whitehorn has an idea for you. He put Hadoop on a cluster of Raspberry Pi mini-computers. Sound ridiculous? For a student trying to learn Hadoop, it ...

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Hadoop and Spark clusters have a reputation for being extremely difficult to configure, install, and tune, but help is on the way. The good folks at Cluster Monkey are hosting a crash course entitled ...

“Mahout” is a Hindi term for a person who rides an elephant. The elephant, in this case, is Hadoop — and Mahout is one of the many projects that can sit on top of Hadoop, although you do not always ...

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When you start a revolution, you need to go public before the next revolution starts. Hadoop used to be the “revolutionary” technology behind the “big data” revolution but it has now been buried deep ...