open source
Everyone Wants Flexibility And Freedom. Or Should.
Flexibility to alter and extend your most vital software assets is more important today than ever before, giving open source software an enormous advantage. Traditional software vendors aren’t able to keep up with what’s happening. Just look at the reality…
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Everyone Wants Flexibility And Freedom. Or Should.
Flexibility to alter and extend your most vital software assets is more important today than ever before, giving open source software an enormous advantage. Traditional software vendors aren’t able to keep up with what’s happening. Just look at the reality…
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It’s Only Rock and Roll
It’s only Rock and Roll, but I like it! – Mick Jagger Copyright is having a tough time in the digital age. New copies of music, movies and software can be created at near zero cost. Some wonder whether it…
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Cloudera 5.2: Hadoop Innovation without Compromise
One year ago, we announced Cloudera’s vision for the enterprise data hub – a unified platform built on Hadoop to store and process all your data (in any format), with the security, management, and governance needed for production deployment. Our…
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A Look Back at Spark as the Open Standard
This blog post was jointly written by Cloudera (Alex Gutow), Intel (Weihua Jiang), and MapR (Nitin Bandugula) – all companies that are part of the Hive-on-Spark Team As one of the most popular tools in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, there’s been…
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Bringing the Community Together with Parquet
This blog post was jointly written by Cloudera (Justin Kestelyn), MapR (Dale Kim), and Twitter (Julien Le Dem) – all contributing companies to the Apache Parquet project: Since its founding in July 2013, Apache Parquet (incubating) has taken the Apache Hadoop…
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Why I Joined Cloudera: A Focus on Open Source
Why I joined Cloudera, in a nutshell: Search is critical to extracting value from Big Data, Apache Hadoop is the foundation of Big Data, and Cloudera is the leader in Hadoop. Of course, there’s a little more to it. As…
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Compatibility and Innovation: Where One Ends, the Other Begins
As Marten Mickos, one of the masters of successfully monetizing open source software, has often pointed out, open source is a “production model”, not a business model unto itself. The relationship between Cloudera’s open source platform and Apache Hadoop is…
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Open Standards in Apache Hadoop: Apache HBase
This blog was penned by Justin Kestelyn, Alex Gutow and Michael Crutcher. Continuing our series about balancing stability and innovation through open standards, let’s take a look at Apache HBase, the open source, NoSQL standard for Apache Hadoop. Tightly integrated…
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Open Source and Its Influence on the Apache Hadoop Ecosystem
By any measure, the Apache Hadoop ecosystem–less than 10 years old–is astoundingly successful. Few other open source platforms have been adopted so rapidly, and so widely. Throughout history, only Linux rivals it with respect to sheer gravitational influence on users…
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