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If you haven’t heard of Flink until now, get ready for the deluge. As one of a stream of Apache incubator-to-top-level projects turned commercial effort, the data processing engine’s promise is to ...

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Written in Java, Hive is a specialized execution front end for Hadoop. Hive lets you write data queries in an SQL-like language. You're using Hadoop, but it feels like you're talking SQL to a ...

Apache Flink, a distributed in-memory data processing framework project born out of Germany, this week graduated the Apache Incubator stage and became a Top-Level Project at the open source software ...

Still, Hive is an ideal express-entry into the large-scale distributed data processing world of Hadoop. All the ease of SQL with all the power of Hadoop — sounds good to me.

Today, Samsung Next, the venture capital arm of Samsung Electronics, announced it is making a strategic investment in Seattle-based Expanso, a startup looking to power distributed data processing ...

It is time to stop the stampede to create capacity to analyze big data and instead pursue a more balanced approach that focuses on finding more data sets and understanding how to use them to ...

Even when designing a Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA), developers must consider resource location, especially when mobile apps are part of a distributed system. Distributing the data and ...