[ale] Hadoop

[Dennis Ruzeski]

Hadoop is a cluster solution for crunching large amounts of data from
different sources. It's pretty cool technology- We  use it where I work for
BI.

--Dennis



On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Robert L Harris
<robert.l.harris at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>   I've had the name hadoop thrown at me a few times recently.  I'm trying
> to figure out why I would run it as a System Engineer with basic html
> skills.  Can anyone shed some light on a "common" use and what it would
> provide above and beyond just apache and a load balancer (I did say I'm
> just starting to read).  I'd love to see any good starter info/sites as
> well.  I looked at the Hadoop project page which is light on "why you would
> use this" and I'm still reading the wikipedia page.
>
>   Looks like drupal is next.
>
> Thanks all,
>   Robert
>
>
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