Hive is a data warehouse infrastructure built over Hadoop. It provides tools to enable easy data ETL, a mechanism to put structures on the data, and the capability to querying and analysis of large data sets stored in Hadoop files. Hive defines a simple SQL-like query language, called QL, that enables users familiar with SQL [...]

Update as of Feb 28th 2009: Contradictory to my initial speculation, Amazon CloudFront is nothing like Akamai WAA. This is very depressing to me as an Akamai/WAA customer… I’m sure folks at Akamai don’t share this opinion.  CloudFront seems to be a glorified S3 solution which is mostly used for static (non-dynamic) content.
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Amazon has finally [...]

Kosmix, a search startup has released source to C++ implementation of something which looks like a clustered file system. This looks very similar to Hadoop/HDFS, but the C++ factor will be a big performance boost.
From Skrenta blog

Incremental scalability – New chunkserver nodes can be added as storage needs increase; the system automatically adapts to the [...]