At today's Hadoop Summit in Silicon Valley, Yahoo!
announced the availability of the Yahoo! Distribution of
Hadoop, a source-only version of Apache Hadoop that Yahoo! uses within its own search engine.
Hadoop, of course, is an open source software framework that helps process very large data sets, and is widely used in large-scale data mining applications as well as in search tools at sites like Facebook and many others. For developers and users interested in Hadoop, it's worth noting that the Yahoo! Distribution of Hadoop has been widely tested and developed at Yahoo! for years now, as Eric Baldeschwieler, VP of grid computing at Yahoo,
described in detail here.?
