Apache Spark is a lightning-fast cluster computing framework designed for fast computation. It is of the most successful projects in the Apache Software Foundation. Spark SQL is a new module in Spark which integrates relational processing with [...]
What does Apache Hive do? The Apache Hive™ data warehouse software facilitates reading, writing, and managing large datasets residing in distributed storage and queried using SQL syntax. Built on top of Apache Hadoop™, Hive provides the following [...]
What is Apache Mahout? Apache™ Mahout is a library of scalable machine-learning algorithms, implemented on top of Apache Hadoop®  and using the MapReduce paradigm. Machine learning is a discipline of artificial [...]
Introduction to Apache Flink® Below is a high-level overview of Apache Flink and stream processing. Continuous Processing for Unbounded Datasets Features: Why Flink? Flink, the streaming model, and bounded datasets The “What”: Flink from [...]
Apache ZooKeeper Apache ZooKeeper is a distributed, open-source coordination service for distributed applications. It exposes a simple set of primitives that distributed applications can build upon to implement higher level services for synchronization, configuration [...]
Cloudera Impala provides fast, interactive SQL queries directly on your Apache Hadoop data stored in HDFS or HBase. In addition to using the same unified storage platform, Impala also uses the same metadata, SQL [...]
Apache Kafka We think of a streaming platform as having three key capabilities: It lets you publish and subscribe to streams of records. In this respect it is similar to a message queue or [...]
What is Apache Flume? Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system for efficiently collecting, aggregating and moving large amounts of log data from many different sources to a centralized data store. The [...]
What is Apache Spark? Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. Speed Run programs up to 100x faster than Hadoop MapReduce in memory, or 10x faster on disk. Apache Spark [...]
What is Apache Pig? Apache Pig is a high-level language platform developed to execute queries on huge datasets that are stored in HDFS using Apache Hadoop. It is similar to SQL [...]
