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 [...]

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 [...]

This may not be a surprise for a lot of people but it was for me. Even though I have been using lucene and nutch for some time, I didn’t really know enough about Hadoop and HBase until recently. Hadoop Scalable: Hadoop can reliably store and process petabytes. Economical: It distributes the data and processing [...]