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Apache Phoenix is a relatively new open source Java project that provides a JDBC driver and SQL access to Hadoop’s NoSQL database: HBase. It was created as an internal project at Salesforce, open ...

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) signed off on version 1.0 of HBase, the "Hadoop database," after seven years of development. Running on top of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Apache ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

A while back, Yahoo quietly made the code to Omid, an open source transaction processing system for the Apache HBase Hadoop big data store, available on GitHub. This is the same software the company ...

Storing data in Hadoop generally means a choice between HDFS and Apache HBase. The former is great for high-speed writes and scans; the latter is ideal for random-access queries — but you can’t get ...