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Hadoop
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Source : http://hadoop.apache.org/ & www.
Today, we’re surrounded by data. People upload videos, take pictures on their cell phones, text friends, update their Facebook status, leave comments around the web, click on ads, and so forth. Machines, too, are generating and keeping more and more data. You may even be reading this book as digital data on your computer screen, and certainly your purchase of this book is recorded as data with some retailer.

The exponential growth of data first presented challenges to cutting-edge businesses such as Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and Microsoft. They needed to go through terabytes and petabytes of data to figure out which websites were popular, what books were in demand, and what kinds of ads appealed to people. Existing tools were becoming inadequate to process such large data sets. Google was the first to publicize MapReduce—a system they had used to scale their data processing needs.

This system aroused a lot of interest because many other businesses were facing similar scaling challenges, and it wasn’t feasible for everyone to reinvent their own proprietary tool. Doug Cutting saw an opportunity and led the charge to develop an open source version of this MapReduce system called Hadoop . Soon after, Yahoo and others rallied around to support this effort.

What is Hadoop ?
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Hadoop is an open source framework for writing and running distributed applications that process large amounts of data. Distributed computing is a wide and varied field, but the key distinctions of Hadoop are that it is

1.Accessible—Hadoop runs on large clusters of commodity machines or on cloud computing services such as Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 ).
2.Robust—Because it is intended to run on commodity hardware, Hadoop is architected with the assumption of frequent hardware malfunctions. It can gracefully handle most such failures.
3.Scalable—Hadoop scales linearly to handle larger data by adding more nodes to the cluster.
4.Simple—Hadoop allows users to quickly write efficient parallel code.

Comparing SQL databases and Hadoop:
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Hadoop is a framework for processing data, what makes it better than standard relational databases, the workhorse of data processing in most of today’s applications? One reason is that SQL (structured query language) is by design targeted at structured data. Many of Hadoop’s initial applications deal with unstructured data such as text. From this perspective Hadoop provides a more general paradigm than SQL.
For working only with structured data, the comparison is more nuanced. In principle, SQL and Hadoop can be complementary, as SQL is a query language which can be implemented on top of Hadoop as the execution engine.3 But in practice, SQL databases tend to refer to a whole set of legacy technologies, with several dominant vendors, optimized for a historical set of applications. Many of these existing commercial databases are a mismatch to the requirements that Hadoop targets.
Some Implementation of Hadoop for production purpose :
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Complete List @ http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/PoweredBy

Sybase IQ
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Sybase IQ : http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221355/Updated_Sybase_IQ_supports_Hadoop_MapReduce_Big_Data_

EBay
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532 nodes cluster (8 * 532 cores, 5.3PB).
Heavy usage of Java MapReduce, Pig, Hive, HBase
Using it for Search optimization and Research.

Facebook
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We use Hadoop to store copies of internal log and dimension data sources and use it as a source for reporting/analytics and machine learning.

Currently we have 2 major clusters:

A 1100-machine cluster with 8800 cores and about 12 PB raw storage.
A 300-machine cluster with 2400 cores and about 3 PB raw storage.
Each (commodity) node has 8 cores and 12 TB of storage.
We are heavy users of both streaming as well as the Java APIs. We have built a higher level data warehousing framework using these features called Hive (see the http://hadoop.apache.org/hive/). We have also developed a FUSE implementation over HDFS.

LinkedIn
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We have multiple grids divided up based upon purpose. * Hardware:
120 Nehalem-based Sun x4275, with 2×4 cores, 24GB RAM, 8x1TB SATA
580 Westmere-based HP SL 170x, with 2×4 cores, 24GB RAM, 6x2TB SATA
1200 Westmere-based SuperMicro X8DTT-H, with 2×6 cores, 24GB RAM, 6x2TB SATA
Software:
CentOS 5.5 -> RHEL 6.1
Sun JDK 1.6.0_14 -> Sun JDK 1.6.0_20 -> Sun JDK 1.6.0_26
Apache Hadoop 0.20.2+patches -> Apache Hadoop 0.20.204+patches
Pig 0.9 heavily customized
Azkaban for scheduling
Hive, Avro, Kafka, and other bits and pieces…

Twitter
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We use Hadoop to store and process tweets, log files, and many other types of data generated across Twitter. We use Cloudera’s CDH2 distribution of Hadoop, and store all data as compressed LZO files.

We use both Scala and Java to access Hadoop’s MapReduce APIs
We use Pig heavily for both scheduled and ad-hoc jobs, due to its ability to accomplish a lot with few statements.
We employ committers on Pig, Avro, Hive, and Cassandra, and contribute much of our internal Hadoop work to opensource (see hadoop-lzo)
For more on our use of Hadoop, see the following presentations: Hadoop and Pig at Twitter and Protocol Buffers and Hadoop at Twitter

Yahoo!
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More than 100,000 CPUs in >40,000 computers running Hadoop
Our biggest cluster: 4500 nodes (2*4cpu boxes w 4*1TB disk & 16GB RAM)
Used to support research for Ad Systems and Web Search
Also used to do scaling tests to support development of Hadoop on larger clusters
Our Blog – Learn more about how we use Hadoop.
>60% of Hadoop Jobs within Yahoo are Pig jobs.

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