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SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 19 — MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache Hadoop, today announced the immediate availability of the MapR Distribution product in Amazon ...

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“By profiling Hadoop jobs in production, operations teams can quickly identify the issues, whether they are mis-configured or unbalanced clusters, poorly-coded workloads or unhealthy hosts. Developers ...

Amazon announced the release of Elastic MapReduce (EMR) 5.0.0 today, which includes, among other things, support for 16 open source Hadoop projects. As AWS continues to hone its various tools to help ...

Yesterday I wrote about Cascading 2.0, an alternative to MapReduce. The application framework, managed by Concurrent, allows for developers to develop “Cascading,” big data apps using high-level ...

University of Delaware Management Information Systems (MIS) Professor Mark Serva knows that data comes in all shapes and sizes: linear and nonlinear, relational and non-relational. He also understands ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its Elastic Map Reduce platform with a new version of Hadoop and updated support for its data analytics ecosystem. Elastic Map Reduce is AWS platform for ...

One of the really great things about Amazon Web Services (AWS) is that AWS makes it easy to create structures in the cloud that would be extremely tedious and time-consuming to create on-premises. For ...

While interest in all things Hadoop is running high, a lot of organizations simply don’t have the skills and resources needed to stand up their own Hadoop cluster. Instead, many are opting to set up ...