Cloudera Blog · Cassandra Posts
Thrift, Scribe, Hive, and Cassandra: Open Source Data Management Software
Apache Hadoop exists within a rich ecosystem of tools for processing and analyzing large data sets. At Facebook, my previous employer, we contributed a few projects of note to this ecosystem, all under the Apache 2.0 license:
Did you know?
Hadoop was created by Doug Cutting (a Cloudera employee), who named it after his child’s stuffed elephant. It was originally developed to support distribution for the Nutch search engine project.
