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Oracle NoSQL, Hadoop ... and Cloud: a familiar play on the new theme

What exactly did Oracle announce? Oracle proclaimed that they will offer a NoSQL database a key-value data store that will scale across a large number of “storage nodes”. The rest of the industry would say a “cluster” … not Oracle. The next thing on the menu perhaps provides an explanation. It is Oracle Big Data Appliance. Where the rest of the world is looking to scale NoSQL across very large clusters of commodity hardware, Oracle wants to see big expensive machines or as they call them “Engineered Systems”. It makes perfect sense for Oracle as they need to return value to their shareholders from the acquisition of SUN. Not sure it makes as much sense for the rest of us. [...]

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Hadoop Programming Challenge Extended by a Week

I blogged about Hadoop Programming Challenge on Big Data University and an opportunity to not only get free Hadoop education but also an all expenses paid trip to Las Vegas. We have had 1400 students take the required Hadoop Fundamentals course. And we have been genuinely impressed with both what many of the students have been able to learn and the creativity of some of the Hadoop Programming Contest submissions. The submissions range from analysis of global warming, to dealing with terror threats to analysis of bra cup sizes. We are not passing judgement on the value of the solution [...]

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Gaming Hadoop Programming Challenge for a free trip to Las Vegas

Hadoop Programming Challenge: 4 days left

Ever since we announced Hadoop Programming Challenge we have had a flood of new students (7194) registering at the BigDataUniversity and a lot (1222) of people enrolling in the Hadoop Fundamentals I course. But don’t take my word for it, check the numbers out for yourself.

Gaming Hadoop

We have been surprised not just by the numbers but also by the persistence and ingenuity of the people looking to become one of the three to go to the IOD Conference in Las Vegas. A number of people have gone as far as to register [...]

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Learn Hadoop for Free and Go to Las Vegas All Expenses Paid

BigDataUniversity provides free @your pace @your place education in Hadoop, MapReduce and other Big Data technologies. In addition to free courses, students also get free study materials and products to do hands on exercises. At this time we are running Hadoop Programming Chalenge that will send 3 lucky participants on an all expenses paid trip to the IOD Conference October 23-27 in Las Vegas. [...]

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Top 5 reasons to join Toronto Hadoop Users Group

Toronto Hadoop User Group: Why Join?

Our team is getting deeply involved in the Big Data in general and Hadoop in particular. Being community-minded people, we looked around for established Hadoop communities in Toronto area to see if we could attend meetups. Our search did not yield any appreciable results so we decided to take action and to form a user group. This is how Toronto HUG was born and as of today we have 21 members or “Toronto HUGers”. 21 members for a city like Toronto is not the right number; not by a long shot. Toronto is the 5th largest [...]

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