Hadoop has been known as MapReduce running on HDFS, but with YARN, Hadoop 2.0 broadens pool of potential applications Hadoop has always been a catch-all for disparate open source initiatives that ...

Hadoop Summit 2013 kicks off tomorrow and expect YARN to be a major topic of conversation. Three years in the making, YARN is essentially a new operating system for Hadoop that will allow the open ...

Having worked on Hadoop since day one in 2006, Hortonworks co-founder Arun Murthy is clear about the significance of the latest version of the open-source big-data technology. "Hadoop 2 is a big step.

Hadoop is about to see a fundamental reset in its base functionality, says Arun Murthy, architect with Hortonworks and the Apache Software Foundation, who says that SQL in Hadoop via YARN is a part of ...

Scheduling means different things depending on the audience. To many in the business world, scheduling is synonymous with workflow management. Workflow management is the coordinated execution of a ...

The Hadoop community recently promoted YARN-- the next-gen Hadoop data processing framework -- to the status of "sub-project" of the Apache Hadoop Top Level Project. The promotion puts YARN on the ...

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Pepperdata CEO Sean Suchter can claim, with justifiable pride, a notable place in the history of Apache Hadoop. When he worked at Yahoo, he managed the world's first production deployment of the ...

New reports have emerged of expanding security threats targeting cloud-based Hadoop and YARN instances, including more sophisticated attacks described as “multi ...

Hortonworks announced that the Apache Spark, a new high-performance analytics engine, is fully enabled for the YARN resource management technology. This means that the Apache Spark can be deployed ...