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Yahoo Releases Open Source Hadoop Distribution
ruphus13 writes "Yahoo has been a vociferous Apache Hadoop user and supporter for several years now, and uses it extensively within its Search technologies. Hadoop has been gaining popularity in the Cloud Computing space, with companies like the NYTimes converting 4TB and 11 million articles to PDFs in under 24 hours using Hadoop and EC2 in late 2007. Hadoop has been made available in Amazon's cloud and Yahoo has now released its own Hadoop version. From the article: 'At today's Hadoop Summit in Silicon Valley, Yahoo! announced the availability of the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop, a source-only version of Apache Hadoop that Yahoo! uses within its own search engine. [Hadoop] is an open source software framework that helps process very large data sets, and is widely used in large-scale data mining applications as well as in search tools at sites like Facebook and many others. For developers and users interested in Hadoop, it's worth noting that the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop has been widely tested and developed at Yahoo! for years now.'"
Wow. I'd never have thunk it. Thought it was short for "I had a poop"
Java is slow. How could it possibly be used to process so much data.
Well I! love Yahoo! because I! believe that all proper nouns, as well as first person pronouns, should be followed by an exclamation mark. Imagine if we! all followed suit -- there would be Google! and Microsoft! and Linux! And Slashdot! The world would be a much more exciting place!
Only if you are vociferous about it.
Qxe4
... and the Slashdot mob's credibility spirals downward...