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November 15, 2012

Facebook’s New Big Data Tool Cranks Up Hadoop – And It’s Open Source

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by Brian Proffitt, ReadWrite

Struggling with even the most cutting-edge big-data tools, developers at Facebook have announced a new open-source tool set, Corona, designed to enable data-processing on the incredible scale required by the massive social-media network. Admittedly, there aren’t a lot of companies with big data this big, but Corona should have spill-over benefits for the entire Hadoop-using big data community. Increasing Hadoop’s overall efficiency should make big data even more accessible and faster to use, enabling big data applications to disrupt even more industries.

http://readwrite.com/2012/11/08/facebooks-new-big-data-tool-cranks-up-hadoop-and-its-open-source

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