Tag: HBase

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Simon Ball. With the increases in data volumes, explosion in number of devices and sophistication of attackers, current cybersecurity tools are challenged processing the millions of events and providing insights fast enough. Cybersecurity teams spend hours analyzing threat events by going from one tool to the next.  We are pleased to announce the general availability of Hortonworks Cybersecurity Package (HCP) that provides a single pane of glass view into threat events across your entire landscape. The package offers full Hortonworks support for the Apache Metron project, which is an open source cyber security platform ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Bhanu Prakash. Azure HDInsight is the only fully-managed cloud Hadoop & Spark offering that gives you optimized open-source analytic clusters for Spark, Hive, MapReduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka, and Microsoft R Server backed by a 99.9% SLA. You can deploy these big data technologies and ISV applications as managed clusters with enterprise-level security and monitoring. Given the broad scope of open source technologies on big data, we have received many requests for a detailed guide around HDInsight. This post outlines the key areas covered by the guide and also outlines some other options for learning on ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Will Xu. As more and more workloads are being brought onto modern hardware in the cloud, it’s important for us to understand how to pick the best databases that can leverage the best hardware. Amazon has introduced instances with directly attached SSD (Solid state drive). Both Apache HBase and Apache Cassandra are popular key-value databases. In this benchmark, we hope to learn more about how they leverage the directly attached SSD in a cloud environment. The benchmark is designed for running Apache HBase and Apache Cassandra in an optimal production environment. This means using ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Manager – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Justin Kestelyn. In this installment of “Meet the Engineers”, meet Jonathan Natkins,  also known as “Natty” by his friends and colleagues.  What do you do at Cloudera, and in which Apache project are you involved? For the last year and a half, I’ve been an engineer on the Enterprise team. We’re the guys who build Cloudera Manager, and all the goodies that make it easy to manage and administer Apache Hadoop clusters. Specifically, I’ve worked on a number of things across the product, like scale and performance for the databases underlying the ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: karan-sachdeva; The power of machine learning, data science and big data is no longer considered a hype or fad. It’s a reality and it’s impacting the bottom lines of businesses. Data has emerged as a real competitive edge and disruptive force for enterprises. Companies that make the most of data by using machine learning and data science will win and outlast in this digital world. IBM and Hortonworks expand partnership to help your business  IBM recently extended its partnership with Hortonworks to better help businesses accelerate data-driven decision making. Hortonworks ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Manager – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Jon Zuanich. In this demo video, BC Wong, a software engineer at Cloudera, discusses the Hadoop Service Monitoring feature in Cloudera Manager. Service Monitoring helps you monitor and manage your Hadoop clusters effectively. Through the Service Monitoring feature, customers can monitor dozens of service health and performance metrics about the overall service (HDFS, MapReduce, HBase). They can also examine underlying role instances (Namenode, Datanodes, JobTracker, TaskTrackers, Region Servers etc.) in your Hadoop cluster and see what’s going wrong – or what is about to go wrong. Service Monitoring presents health and performance ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Manager – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Jon Zuanich. Service and Configuration Management (Part I & II) We’ve recently recorded a series of demo videos intended to highlight the extensive set of features and functions included with Cloudera Manager, the industry’s first end-to-end management application for Apache Hadoop. These demo videos showcase the newly enhanced Cloudera Manager interface and reveal how to use this powerful application to simplify the administration of Hadoop clusters, optimize performance and enhance the quality of service. In the first two videos of this series, Philip Langdale, a software engineer at Cloudera, walks through Cloudera ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Labs – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Ted Malaska. The SparkOnHBase project in Cloudera Labs was recently merged into the Apache HBase trunk. In this post, learn the project’s history and what the future looks like for the new HBase-Spark module. SparkOnHBase was first pushed to Github on July 2014, just six months after Spark Summit 2013 and five months after Apache Spark first shipped in CDH. That conference was a big turning point for me, because for the first time I realized that the MapReduce engine had a very strong competitor. Spark was about to enter an exciting new ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Labs – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Justin Kestelyn. We are happy to announce the inclusion of Apache Phoenix in Cloudera Labs. [Update: A new package for Apache Phoenix 4.7.0 on CDH 5.7 was released in June 2016.] Apache Phoenix is an efficient SQL skin for Apache HBase that has created a lot of buzz. Many companies are successfully using this technology, including Salesforce.com, where Phoenix first started. With the news that Apache Phoenix integration with Cloudera’s platform has joined Cloudera Labs, let’s take a closer look at a few key questions surrounding Phoenix: What does it do? Why ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Labs – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Justin Kestelyn. Thanks to Sam Shuster, Software Engineer at Edmunds.com, for the guest post below about his company’s use case for Spark Streaming, SparkOnHBase, and Morphlines. Every year, the Super Bowl brings parties, food and hopefully a great game to appease everyone’s football appetites until the fall. With any event that brings in around 114 million viewers with larger numbers each year, Americans have also grown accustomed to commercials with production budgets on par with television shows and with entertainment value that tries to rival even the game itself. Some of the ... Read More