
ProblemOur client was not able to achieve the performance they needed
from their traditional RDBMS persistence platform. Their requirement was
to have...
0 replies - 1728 views - 06/14/13 by Todd Homa in Articles

The past week or so we got some new data that we had to process quickly. There are quite a few technologies out there to quickly churn map/reduce jobs on...
0 replies - 1577 views - 03/05/13 by Arnon Rotem-gal-oz in Articles

This twenty minute tutorial from Dan Morrill explains a simple Pig script line by line. Concise and useful:
0 replies - 1536 views - 02/15/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles

Okay, this post isn't nearly as melodramatic as its title – I’m doing some log analysis with Hadoop and Pig. As the logs are coming from a webserver and...
0 replies - 3016 views - 09/12/12 by Oliver Hookins in Articles

"Big Data Analytics"
has recently been one of the hottest buzzwords. It is a combination of
"Big Data" and "Deep...
0 replies - 3899 views - 08/14/12 by Ricky Ho in Articles

In the previous post we learned how easy it was to install Hadoop with Apache Bigtop!
We know its not
just Hadoop and there are sub-projects around the...
0 replies - 4770 views - 07/15/12 by Swathi Venkatachala in Articles

It all started with this odd bug…
One of our teams is writing a service, that among other things, runs map/reduce jobs built as pig
scripts with Java...
0 replies - 4240 views - 05/10/12 by Arnon Rotem-gal-oz in Articles

If you are trying to run Pig on Cassandra and you encounter: "binary operator expected"You
are most likely running pig_cassandra against the latest...
0 replies - 3705 views - 01/01/12 by Brian O' Neill in Articles

A new survey on Hadoop suggests that companies using the Apache project's utilities (which include Hadoop Commons, ZooKeeper, HDFS, Hive, MapReduce, etc.) are...
0 replies - 8707 views - 10/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles