Roger Hosto
Articles
Writing about databases, infrastructure, and whatever else comes up.
Sep 19, 2012 · Databases Administration
Hortonworks Road Show "Big Business Value from Big Data and Hadoop"
This morning I went to the Hortonworks Road Show. It's wasn't Bad. I have to say out of the Hadoop Vendor I have talked to, I like Hortonworks business model …
Jun 26, 2012 · Databases Administration
Make way for Hadoop in the 'Big Data' craze
Interesting bit on Hadoop a little over hyped if you ask me. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/make-way-for-hadoop-in-the-big-data-craze-2012-06-26?link=MW_latest_news --Regards
Jun 22, 2012 · Databases Administration
Working with Hadoop Streaming
Hadoop streaming is a utility that comes with the Hadoop distribution. The utility allows you to create and run map/reduce jobs with any executable or script as the mapper and/or …
Jun 21, 2012 · Databases Administration
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
It appears that Amazon is introducing a new service specifically targeted at Relational Databases helpful hints. You can choose from MySQL, Oracle, and Microsoft Sql Server. Amazon Relational Database Service …
Jun 20, 2012 · Databases Administration
Looking at the Hadoop MapReduce Capacity, Fair, and Hod Schedulers.
Today | started looking at the different MapReduce Schedulers, because I would like to be able to start the processing on a new jobs when slots became available. So I …
Jun 18, 2012 · Databases Administration
Serengeti Soups Up Apache Hadoop
The primary goal of Bigtop is to build a community around the packaging, deployment and interoperability testing of Hadoop-related projects. This includes testing at various levels (packaging, platform, runtime, upgrade, …
Jun 18, 2012 · Databases Administration
Apache Bigtop Hadoop
The primary goal of Bigtop is to build a community around the packaging, deployment and interoperability testing of Hadoop-related projects. This includes testing at various levels (packaging, platform, runtime, upgrade, …
Jun 16, 2012 · Databases Administration
MySQL Cheat Sheet
Found this today. Not to bad for a quick reference sheet. MySQL Cheat Sheet
Jun 14, 2012 · Databases Administration
Hortonworks Releases Its (Conservative) Hadoop Platform
Check this article out. "Hortonworks sets itself apart from Cloudera and MapR by sticking with standards-based software and Apache's proven 1.0 code line." >>
Apr 25, 2012 · Databases Administration
Configuring MySQL as a Hive Metastore
Hive uses DerbyDB to store its metadata by default, if you have ever tried having more than one person, or multiple services, such as the Hive Web UI or Hive …