Category Archives: Hadoop and Mapreduce

Combining Hadoop/Elastic Mapreduce with AWS Redshift Data Warehouse

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Amund Tveit

There are currently interesting developments of scalable (up to Petabytes), low-latency and affordable datawarehouse related solutions, e.g. AWS Redshift (cloud-based) [1] Cloudera’s Impala (open source) [2,3] Apache Thrill (open source) [4] This posting shows how one of them – AWS … Continue reading →

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Mapreduce & Hadoop Algorithms in Academic Papers (4th update – May 2011)

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Amund Tveit

Follow @atbrox It’s been a year since I updated the mapreduce algorithms posting last time, and it has been truly an excellent year for mapreduce and hadoop – the number of commercial vendors supporting it has multiplied, e.g. with 5 … Continue reading →

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Mapreduce in Search

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Amund Tveit

Wrote about mapreduce in search in a presentation for next week. Mapreduce in Search (more up-to-date pdf version of the presentation) Best regards, Amund Atbrox

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Programmatic Deployment to Elastic Mapreduce with Boto and Bootstrap Action

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Amund Tveit

A while back I wrote about How to combine Elastic Mapreduce/Hadoop with other Amazon Web Services. This posting is a small update to that, showing how to deploy extra packages with Boto for Python. Note that Boto can deploy mappers … Continue reading →

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Recommended Mapreduce Workshop

Posted on August 31, 2010 by Amund Tveit

If you are interested in Hadoop or Mapreduce, I would like to recommend participating or submitting your paper to the First International Workshop on Theory and Practice of Mapreduce (MAPRED’2010) (held in correspondance with the 2nd IEEE International Conference on … Continue reading →

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