Tag Archives: hadoop

What is Apache Hadoop?

4th
Aug. × ’11
By Shane

There’s a lot of excitement around Hadoop software these days, here’s my definition of what “Hadoop” means: Hadoop ™ is the ASF’s trademark for our Apache Hadoop software product that provides a service and simple programming model for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of commodity computers. Many people view Hadoop as [...]

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Congratulations to six new Apache projects!

25th
Apr. × ’10
By Shane

In last week’s monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the ASF, we approved the creation of six new Top Level Projects (TLPs) at the ASF. This is the most new TLPs ever created at once, followed only by the meeting of November, 2008 where 5 new TLPs were created (CouchDB, Buildr, the Attic, [...]

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