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Developing for big data systems is like driving a freight truck full of eggs on ice. It is different from driving a sedan as in enterprise s...

From: http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2010/04/cap-confusion-problems-with-partition-tolerance/ ....partition tolerance is not something we have...

Twitter Storm is great! However, a lot of shops have already invested heavily into Hadoop infrastructure and if Hadoop could be used for pro...

A trivial task in PIG, which comes up a lot when doing sanity check on mapreduce program output is to count the number of rows in outputs an...

One thing that seems easy to grasp in Hadoop is the concept of speculative execution. Sounds trivial - if I have a task and am not so sure ...

so on my local cluster I have 9 nodes, and every now and then I need to clean up the mess that my SGE jobs create, or collect the logs or wh...