When the Big Data moniker is applied to a discussion, it’s often assumed that Hadoop is, or should be, involved. But perhaps that’s just doctrinaire. Hadoop, at its core, consists of HDFS (the Hadoop ...

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Platform Computing supports a wide range of customers, many of which are embarking on MapReduce initiatives as a way of managing the extreme growth in unstructured data, Scott Campbell, director, ...

Fig 1. Hadoop implements a distributed parallel programming MapReduce architecture including the use of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). Fig 2. The OPEN (One-Pair Ether-Net) Alliance ...