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Executive Series: Hadoop Technical Overview
October 1, 2016
What is Hadoop? Hadoop is a distributed architecture and infrastructure for storing and processing Big Data. See the previous post, What is Hadoop and Why Should I Care? What are the challenges of building a system like Hadoop? Mainly, reliability and scalability. Suppose the data is distributed across 1,000 commodity computers. With that many nodes, the […]
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Executive Series: What is Hadoop and Why Should I Care?
September 1, 2016
What is Hadoop? Why do I need to know about it? Suppose your company collects a lot of data—not just gigabytes but terabytes or petabytes. To make that data useful, you need a system to store all that data reliably and retrieve and manipulate it quickly. Hadoop is a distributed architecture and infrastructure for storing and […]
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Better Storage for Hadoop
July 15, 2016
Hadoop is able to make solving many real-world problems much easier, but sometimes the system design can mean unnecessary duplication of data and limited access. One example is in the digitization of paper-based content. Rasterizing PDF in commercial printing One of the key features of a PDF is that each page is independent of all other […]
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Hadoop and Paper-Based Digitization
March 15, 2016
Hadoop is able to make solving many real-world problems much easier, but sometimes the system design can mean unnecessary duplication of data and limited access. One example is in the digitization of paper-based content. Rasterizing PDF in commercial printing One of the key features of the PDF print description language is that each page is […]
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