[colug-432] Hadoop interest ?

[Tom Hanlon]

Hi There COLUG, 

On Dec 13, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Christopher Stolfi wrote:

> I think these would be great topics to have meetups around... It might
> be worth casting a wider net from Hadoop and Cassandra to any of the
> newly mainstream NoSQL solutions.  I have some experience with Hadoop
> (love how easy Cloudera makes it),  but am also starting to work with
> Membase and MongoDB.
> 

I just learned of Membase, and already I hear of it in production. I am guessing that the layer on top of memcache is fairly thin, so that it can be trusted at this early stage ? 

Yes ? No ? 


Summarize Mongo for the masses please.


> I'm more of an Operations guy, so learning how to make these things
> withstand failures is tops on my list....but any good discussion
> around it is a win. It'd be nice to see Columbus foster these newer
> technologies....we can be webscale too ;-)  (This little cartoon is
> very NSFW (language), but is a funny little bit about MySQL vs NoSQL
> http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/6995033/ )
> 

Thanks for sharing that.. now we can all say "is it webscale ? " and smile ? 

That video tore through the MySQL and Cloudera community like lightning. 

We all get that fever to do or use something because it is the next big thing... I think exploring the new stuff is always worthwhile, wether you are facebook or not. 

I know I have to spend some time learning new stuff or I go crazy. 

--
Tom


> Hope we can get some traction around this!
> 
> -s
> 
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Tom Hanlon <tom at functionalmedia.com> wrote:
>> Hi Colug,
>> 
>> I just joined Cloudera as a trainer. I will be teaching Hadoop Map/
>> Reduce and all that wonderfully distributed batch processing framework
>> stuff.
>> 
>> I am thinking about creating a hadoop meetup in Columbus.
>> 
>> Gauging interest or looking for contacts in other groups or
>> individuals that might be interested.
>> 
>> COLUG has been tremendously helpful to me over the years, so I could
>> also come up from athens and do a Hadoop presentation at a Colug
>> meeting.
>> 
>> Anyone on list playing around with
>> 
>> Hadoop ?
>> Cassandra ?
>> 
>> Or other implementations of something that got started after google
>> wrote the big-table, GFS paper ?
>> 
>> Anyone use hdfs for it's simplicity in terms of big files over many
>> machines and disks ?
>> 
>> I have seen OCLC at hadoop trainings so I know they are at least
>> curious.
>> I met someone else from Columbus but I forget the company or use..
>> 
>> Hadoop is fun, unfortunately written in Java, now that Oracle owns
>> java and as we await the outcome of Oracle vs Google and the future to
>> see exactly what or how open Java really is.
>> But that is mostly another issue.
>> 
>> 
>> Happy Holidays.
>> 
>> --
>> Tom
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Tom Hanlon
>> tom at functionalmedia.com
>> Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer
>> Certified MySQL DBA
>> 
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Tom Hanlon
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Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer
Certified MySQL DBA