Category Archives: Community

Apache Hadoop 3.0.0-alpha2 Released

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The Apache Hadoop project announced the release of 3.0.0-alpha2 on January 25th, 2017. This is the second alpha release in the 3.0.0 release series leading up to 3.0.0 GA, and incorporates 857 new fixes, improvements, and features since 3.0.0-alpha1 last September. It’s worth reading our previous blog post about 3.0.0-alpha1; in this post, we’ll discuss the new improvements that landed in alpha2.

Classpath Isolation for Hadoop Client Jars

The pain of classpath isolation has been experienced by many Java developers.

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Apache HBase is Everywhere

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Categories: Community Events HBase

For Cloudera, Apache HBase has grown into a stable, scalable, mature, and critical component of the Apache Hadoop stack.  

HBase adds the ability to do low-latency random read/write across your big data. While it is a key piece of the Apache Hadoop ecosystem, HBase itself has an ecosystem of projects and products that use it as a storage engine for systems such as time series database (OpenTSDB), or SQL-style databases (Apache Phoenix,

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HBaseCon 2016 Speaker Lineup Announced

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Categories: Community Events HBase

The speaker lineup for the fifth annual edition of HBaseCon reflects an amazing diversity of production deployments.

The organizers of HBaseCon, the conference for the Apache HBase community, have published the agenda for the conference (May 24, 2016, in San Francisco)—and once again, the impressive geographical and use-case diversity of HBase are on full display.

Keynotes include:

  • “State of Apache HBase” – Apache HBase PMC
  • “Facebook’s Return to (Real) Open Source” – Elliott Clark,

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Congratulations to the Cloudera Community’s New Champions

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Please help us congratulating Alina Gherman and Nishanth Shajahan, the first members of the Cloudera Community Champions Program.

As the leading provider of data management and analytics built on Apache Hadoop, Cloudera understands that a thriving open source ecosystem requires a thriving community. Cloudera and open source are built upon the very premise of community, and community remains a core tenant of its business. We are proud of the fact that our engineers contribute more to upstream Hadoop ecosystem projects than any Hadoop vendor,

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HBaseCon 2016 in Full Effect: Call for Papers and Early Registration

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HBaseCon 2016 will occur on May 24, 2016, at The Village in San Francisco.

HBaseCon is back, and CfP and Early Bird registration are both open for business.

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Now in its fifth year, HBaseCon is the premier community event for Apache HBase contributors, developers, admins, and users of all skill levels. The event is hosted and organized by Cloudera, with a Program Committee reflecting a cross-section of the HBase community (including employees of Bloomberg LP,

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