Intel Goes Graph with Hadoop Distro by Alex Woodie.
From the post:
Intel will be targeting big retail operations with a new graph database that it unveiled today as part of its Intel Distribution for Apache Hadoop version 3 announcement. The graph engine will enable customers to make product or customer recommendations in real time, a la Netflix or Amazon, based on existing data. The chip giant also fleshed out its Hadoop distro with a 20x speedup in encryption functions, a data tokenization option, and a handful of new machine learning algorithms aimed at solving common problems.
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Intel got its feet wet with graph analytics a year ago when it released into the open source arena Graph Builder, a set of libraries designed to help developers create graphs based on real world models. Since that first alpha release, Intel developers have streamlined the software and made it easier for users to import, clean, and transform large amounts of data sitting in the graph database. These enhancements will ship in early 2014 as Intel Graph Builder for Apache Hadoop software version 2.
Intel Graph Builder is based on the open source Titan distributed graph database, and uses Pig scripts to trigger queries on top of the graph, says Ritu Kama, director of product management in Intel’s Big Data group. The graph engine adds another analytical option for Intel Hadoop customers, in addition to MapReduce, HBase, Hive, and Mahout, which are all bundled with the distribution.
Yes, Titan, whose development has been lead by Marko A. Rodriguez.
I can’t think of a better Christmas present!
Will Tittel be the successor to Wintel?
When you tire of the shallow end of the graph pool, you can answer that question for yourself with Titan and/or the Intel® Distribution.
PS: The download page says:
Download the Intel® Distribution to experience the power of hardware assisted security & enterprise grade performance for Apache Hadoop* big data processing. This 100% Apache Hadoop* open source download delivers core project capabilities with value added Intel® Manager: auto-tuning for hadoop clusters, role based access control for HBase, multi-site scalability and adaptive replication in HBase, and many other features to ease deployment of Hadoop in the enterprise. After registration you will be presented to download TAR or Virtual Machine versions, gain access to online help documentation, and receive a link to Community Forums.
It’s 90 day unrestricted evaluation software.
I’m going to wait until after the holidays to grab a copy.