Hadoop

Hadoop will now natively support Apache’s framework for job scheduling and cluster resource management. With Hadoop’s 2.2.0 version, the first stable release offered on the 2.x build, the platform sees YARN sit on top of HDFS (Hadoop Distributed Filing System) to offer a large-scale, distributed operating system for applications dealing with big data, thus enabling simultaneous processing for

Hortonworks announced a sandbox environment for Hadoop which aimed at giving new users and easy way to learn how to use Hadoop. The Hortonworks Sandox is designed to be an easy-to-use environment for learning Apache Hadoop. The program is a free download for a complete, self contained virtual machine with Apache Hadoop pre-configured. With the Hortonworks Sandbox you can also get a Web interface