ZDNet

Hadoop 2.0: MapReduce in its place, HDFS all grown-up

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 ...
ZDNet

MapReduce and MPP: Two sides of the Big Data coin?

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 ...
InfoWorld

MapReduce programming with Apache Hadoop

Google and its MapReduce framework may rule the roost when it comes to massive-scale data processing, but there’s still plenty of that goodness to go around. This article gets you started with Hadoop, ...
InfoWorld

YARN unwinds MapReduce’s grip on Hadoop

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 ...
techtarget

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)

The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is the primary data storage system used by Hadoop applications. HDFS employs a NameNode and DataNode architecture to implement a distributed file system that ...
techtarget

Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)

What is Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)? The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is the primary data storage system Hadoop applications use. It's an open source distributed processing ...