Roger Hosto
Articles
Writing about databases, infrastructure, and whatever else comes up.
Jun 12, 2013 · Databases Administration
Windows Azure HDInsight ( Hadoop on Windows )
Lately I have been asked by a lot of my co-workers, if Hadoop runs on Windows. After going to the Hadoop Summit last month, I have been able to tell …
Mar 1, 2013 · Databases Administration
Hadoop to Hadoop Copy
Here recently I need to copy the content of one hadoop cluster to another for geo redundancy. Thankfully instead of have to write something to do it, Hadoop supply a …
Sep 19, 2012 · Databases Administration
Hortonworks Road Show "Big Business Value from Big Data and Hadoop"
This morning I went to the Hortonworks Road Show. It's wasn't Bad. I have to say out of the Hadoop Vendor I have talked to, I like Hortonworks business model …
Jun 26, 2012 · Databases Administration
Make way for Hadoop in the 'Big Data' craze
Interesting bit on Hadoop a little over hyped if you ask me. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/make-way-for-hadoop-in-the-big-data-craze-2012-06-26?link=MW_latest_news --Regards
Jun 22, 2012 · Databases Administration
Working with Hadoop Streaming
Hadoop streaming is a utility that comes with the Hadoop distribution. The utility allows you to create and run map/reduce jobs with any executable or script as the mapper and/or …
Jun 21, 2012 · Databases Administration
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
It appears that Amazon is introducing a new service specifically targeted at Relational Databases helpful hints. You can choose from MySQL, Oracle, and Microsoft Sql Server. Amazon Relational Database Service …
Jun 20, 2012 · Databases Administration
Looking at the Hadoop MapReduce Capacity, Fair, and Hod Schedulers.
Today | started looking at the different MapReduce Schedulers, because I would like to be able to start the processing on a new jobs when slots became available. So I …
Jun 18, 2012 · Databases Administration
Serengeti Soups Up Apache Hadoop
The primary goal of Bigtop is to build a community around the packaging, deployment and interoperability testing of Hadoop-related projects. This includes testing at various levels (packaging, platform, runtime, upgrade, …
Jun 18, 2012 · Databases Administration
Apache Bigtop Hadoop
The primary goal of Bigtop is to build a community around the packaging, deployment and interoperability testing of Hadoop-related projects. This includes testing at various levels (packaging, platform, runtime, upgrade, …
Jun 16, 2012 · Databases Administration
MySQL Cheat Sheet
Found this today. Not to bad for a quick reference sheet. MySQL Cheat Sheet