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Hadoop Summit Recap Part Two – SELECT FROM hdfs WHERE bigdatavendor USING SQL 15 Jul 2013 | 11:20 am
Probably the most widespread, and commercially imminent, theme at the Summit was “SQL on Hadoop.” Since last year, many offerings have been touted, debated, and some have even shipped. In this post, I...
That Exciting New Stuff? Yeah… Wait Till It Ships. 14 Jul 2013 | 03:08 am
A brief rant here: I am asked with great frequency how this RDBMS will hold off that big data play, how data warehouses will survive in a world where Hadoop exists, or whether Apple is done now that A...
Hadoop Summit Recap Part One – A Ripping YARN 10 Jul 2013 | 08:56 am
I had the privilege of keynoting this year’s Hadoop Summit, so I may be a bit prejudiced when I say the event confirmed my assertion that we have arrived at a turning point in Hadoop’s maturation. The...
Open Source “Purity,” Hadoop, and Market Realities 10 Mar 2013 | 04:43 am
I don’t often do a pure opinion piece but I feel compelled to weigh in on a queston I’ve been asked several times since EMC released its Pivotal HD recently. The question is whether it is somehow inap...
Hadoop 2013 – Part Four: Players 9 Mar 2013 | 01:20 am
The first three posts in this series talked about performance, projects and platforms as key themes in what is beginning to feel like a watershed year for Hadoop. All three are reflected in the surp...
Hadoop 2013 – Part Three: Platforms 24 Feb 2013 | 03:52 am
In the first two posts in this series, I talked about performance and projects as key themes in Hadoop’s watershed year. As it moves squarely into the mainstream, organizations making their first move...
Hadoop 2013 – Part Two: Projects 21 Feb 2013 | 08:16 am
In Part One of this series, I pointed out that how significant attention is being lavished on performance in 2013. In this installment, the topic is projects, which are proliferating precipitously. On...
Hadoop 2013 – Part One: Performance 16 Feb 2013 | 10:27 pm
It’s no surprise that we’ve been treated to many year-end lists and predictions for Hadoop (and everything else IT) in 2013. I’ve never been that much of a fan of those exercises, but I’ve been asked ...
Hadoop and DI – A Platform Is Not A Solution 10 Feb 2013 | 10:16 pm
“Hadoop people” and “RDBMS people” – including some DBAs who have contacted me recently – clearly have different ideas about what Data Integration is. And both may differ from what Ted Friedman and ...
Stack Up Hadoop to Find Its Place in Your Architecture 31 Jan 2013 | 12:14 am
2013 promises to be a banner year for Apache Hadoop, platform providers, related technologies – and analysts who try to sort it out. I’ve been wrestling with ways to make sense of it for Gartner clien...
