The Hadoop community recently promoted YARN-- the next-gen Hadoop data processing framework -- to the status of "sub-project" of the Apache Hadoop Top Level Project. The promotion puts YARN on the ...

There is a lot of pressure on open source to deliver a viable platform for the enterprise. As we learned at the recently concluded Hadoop Summit (#hadoopsummit), Hortonworks believes that Hadoop + ...

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Hadoop has been known as MapReduce running on HDFS, but with YARN, Hadoop 2.0 broadens pool of potential applications Hadoop has always been a catch-all for disparate open source initiatives that ...

Hadoop Summit 2013 kicks off tomorrow and expect YARN to be a major topic of conversation. Three years in the making, YARN is essentially a new operating system for Hadoop that will allow the open ...

Hortonworks announced that the Apache Spark, a new high-performance analytics engine, is fully enabled for the YARN resource management technology. This means that the Apache Spark can be deployed ...

Scheduling means different things depending on the audience. To many in the business world, scheduling is synonymous with workflow management. Workflow management is the coordinated execution of a ...

Pepperdata CEO Sean Suchter can claim, with justifiable pride, a notable place in the history of Apache Hadoop. When he worked at Yahoo, he managed the world's first production deployment of the ...

The upcoming delivery of Apache Hadoop 3 later this year will bring big changes to how customers store and process data on clusters. Here at the annual Apache Big Data show in Miami, Florida, a pair ...

Code submitted this week for inclusion in the Hadoop stack will help speed the spread of the distributed big-data platform, according to Hortonworks co-founder Arun Murthy. The submission of the ...