chug2012dec

Clojure Houston User Group - December 2012 meetup on Cascalog

External Resources

• Hadoop

• Cascalog

• Pallet

• Looking for a map reduce language - blog post that compares plain MapReduce in Java, Pig, Hive, Cascalog, and a few others

Other resources

• Storm - "Distributed and fault-tolerant realtime computation: stream processing, continuous computation, distributed RPC, and more"
• ZooKeeper - "ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services."
• HBase - Hadoop database. Modelled after Google Bigtable.
• Hive - Data warehousing on Hadoop. SQL-like querying.
• HUE - UI for Hadoop. Browser for HDFS, Hive and Impalla UI, etc
• Apache Bigtop - packaging of various Hadoop projects. Offshoot of Cloudera's distro?
• Cloudera Impala - realtime queries in Hadoop; alternative to Mapreduce
• Apache Ambari - "a web-based tool for provisioning, managing, and monitoring Apache Hadoop clusters"

Papers

• The Google File System
• MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters
• Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
• Dremel: Interactive Analysis of Web-Scale Datasets

Tutorials

• Cascalog for the Impatient