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Statistics about Hadoop and Mapreduce Algorithm Papers

Underneath are statistics about which 20 papers (of about 80 papers) were most read in our 3 previous postings about mapreduce and hadoop algorithms (the postings have been read approximately 5000 times). The list is ordered by decreasing reading frequency, … Continue reading

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Mapreduce & Hadoop Algorithms in Academic Papers (3rd update)

Atbrox is startup company providing technology and services for Search and Mapreduce/Hadoop. Our background is from Google, IBM and research. Contact us if you need help with algorithms for mapreduce This posting is the May 2010 update to the similar … Continue reading

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Initial Thoughts on Yahoo’s Ranking Challenge

Atbrox is startup company providing technology and services for Search and Mapreduce/Hadoop. Our background is from Google, IBM and Research. Yahoo recently announced the Learning to Rank Challenge – a pretty interesting web search challenge (as the somewhat similar Netflix … Continue reading

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So, what is Hadoop?

Atbrox is startup company providing technology and services for Search and Mapreduce/Hadoop. Our background is from Google, IBM and Research. Hadoop is a set of open source technologies that supports reliable and cost-efficient ways of dealing with large amounts of … Continue reading

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Hadoop World 2009 – some notes from morning session

Location: Roosevelt Hotel NYC 09:11 – Christophe Bisciglia (Cloudera) Announcement about BOFs HBASE and UI Birds of a Feather Hadoop history overview happenings during the last year: Hive, Pig, Sqoop (data import) ++ yesterday: Vertica announced mapreduce support for their … Continue reading

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