Hadoop: Funny Name, Powerful Software

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 9, 2008 3:19 PM EDT
LinuxInsider; By Elise Ackerman
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Behind Yahoo's push to open up Web search and advertising is software powerful enough to sort through the entire Library of Congress in less than half a minute. The software, calledHadoop, is part of Yahoo's massive computing grid and is transforming the way that Yahoo and corporate giants like IBM extract meaning from enormous streams of data.

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