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Hadoop in my IT department: How to plan a cluster?

Ok, you have decided to setup a Hadoop cluster for your business. Next step now, planning the cluster… But Hadoop is a complex stack and you might have many questions: HDFS deals with replication and Map Reduce create files… How can I plan my storage needs? How to plan my CPU needs? How to plan my memory needs? Should I consider different needs on some nodes of the cluster? I heard that Map Reduce moves its job code where the data to process is located……

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Introduction to Datastax Brisk : an Hadoop and Cassandra distribution

As the Apache Hadoop ecosystem grows while its core matures, there are now several companies providing business-class Hadoop distribution and services. While EMC, after it acquires Greenplum, seem the biggest player other companies such as Cloudera or MapR are also competing. This article introduces Datastax Brisk, an innovative Hadoop distribution that leverage Apache Hive data warehouse infrastructure on top of an HDFS-compatible storage layer, based on Cassandra. Brisk try to reconcile real-time applications with low-latency requirement (OLTP) and big data analytics (OLAP) in one system.…

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