Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Wed Nov 14 18:22:36 CST 2012
Facebook is one of the leading proponents of systems for managing big data. With their latest improvements in their core package Corona, a Hadoop derivative, they can scan and search billions of pieces of data in less than a second. With their OSS philosophy they have been posting their engineering notes for all those geeks interested in what is the latest advances and discussions: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-the-hood-schedulin g-mapreduce-jobs-more-efficiently-with-corona/10151142560538920 If you are interested in going yet further you can download the latest stable versions from Github https://github.com/facebook/hadoop-20/tree/master/src/contrib/corona (It will be fun to see if you can get this running on your laptop...he he he.) Jim