Apache Hadoop to get more user-friendly
From Paul Krill at InfoWorld:
Relief is on the way for users of the open source Apache Hadoop distributed computing platform who have wrestled with the complexity of the technology.
A planned upgrade to Hadoop distributed computing platform, which has become popular for analyzing large volumes of data, is intended to make the platform more user-friendly, said Eric Baldeschwieler, CEO of HortonWorks, which was unveiled as a Yahoo spinoff last month with the intent of building a support and training business around Hadoop. The upgrade also will feature improvements for high availability, installation, and data management. Due in beta releases later this year with a general availability release eyed for the second quarter of 2012, the release is probably going to be called Hadoop 0.23.
I don’t remember seeing any announcements that a product would become “less user-friendly.” You? 😉
Still, good news because it means not only will Hadoop become easier to use, so will its competitors.