Hadoop World: Talking HBase with Facebook’s Jonathan Gray

November 16, 2011

At Hadoop World, Facebook’s Jonathan Gray gave two talks: HBase Roapmap, and Building Realtime Big Data Services at Facebook with Hadoop and HBase.  While I wasn’t able to attend the sessions, at the end of the conference I was able to catch up with the man himself.

Here’s what he had to say:

Some of the ground Jonathan covers

  • How Jonathan got involved with HBase and how Facebook uses it
  • (1:00) Where does HBase fit in the big data ecosystem
  • (1:54) HBase vs MySQL
  • (2:44) The HBase community and where the committers reside
  • (5:35) What is Jonathan looking forward to in HBase (the “HBase DBA”)

Extra-credit reading

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Hadoop World: Battery Ventures EIR Todd P.

November 16, 2011

Todd Papaioannou has been in Big Data for a while.  He built the original engineering team at Greenplum, worked at Teradata for 5 years and mostly recently, before joining Battery Ventures as an  Entrepreneur in Residence, served as Yahoo’s Chief Cloud architect.

I grabbed some time with Mr. P to learn what it means to be an EIR and what he’s seeing in the industry from his vantage point.

Some of the ground Todd covers

  • Todd’s background
  • (0:45) What is an Entrepreneur in Residence and how did Todd become one
  • (2:45) What trends is he seeing in the space and how does he feel the market’s evolving
  • (4:00) What are his big take aways from this year’s Hadoop World

But wait, there’s more!

Stay tuned for more interviews from last week’s Hadoop world.  On tap are:

  • John Gray of Facebook
  • Erik Swan of Splunk
  • Nosh Petigara of 10gen/MongoDB

Extra-credit reading

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Hadoop World: Learning about NoSQL database Couchbase

November 10, 2011

The next in my series of video interviews from Hadoop World is with Mark Azad who covers technical solutions for Couchbase.  If you’re not familiar with Couchbase it’s a NoSQL database provider and the company was formed when, earlier this year, CouchOne and Membase merged.

Here’s what Mark had to say.

Some of the ground Mark covers

  • What is Couchbase and what is NoSQL
  • How Couchbase works with Hadoop
  • What its product line up looks like and his new combined offering coming next year
  • Some of Couchbase’s customers and how Zynga uses them
  • What excites Mark the most up the upcoming year in Big Data

Extra-credit reading

Pau for now…

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Hadoop World: Cloudera CEO reflects on this year’s event

November 9, 2011

A few hours ago the third annual Hadoop World conference wrapped up here in New York city.  It has been a packed couple of days with keynotes, sessions and exhibits from all sorts of folks within the greater big data ecosystem.

I caught up with master of ceremonies and Cloudera CEO Mike Olson to get his thoughts on the event and predictions for next year.

Some of the ground Mike covers:

  • How this year’s event compares to the first two and how its grown (it ain’t Mikey Rooney anymore)
  • (2:06) Key trends and customers at the event
  • (4:02) Mike’s thoughts on the Dell/Cloudera partnership
  • (5:35) Looking forward to Hadoop world 2012 and where to go next

Stay tuned

If you’re interested in seeing more interviews from Hadoop World 2011 be sure to check back.  I have eight other vlogs that I will be posting in the upcoming days with folks from Mongo DB, O’Reilly Media, Facebook, Couchbase, Karmasphere, Splunk, Ubuntu and Battery Ventures.

Extra-credit reading:

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Hadoop World: Accel’s $100M Big Data fund

November 9, 2011

Yesterday Hadoop World kicked off here in New York city.  As part of the opening keynotes, Ping Li of Accel Partners got on stage and announced that they are opening a $100 million dollar fund focusing on big data.  If you’re not familiar with Accel, they are the venture capital firm that have invested in such hot companies as Facebook, Cloudera, Couchbase, Groupon and Fusion IO.

I grabbed some time with Ping at the end of the sessions yesterday to learn more about their fund:

Some of the ground Ping covers:

  • What areas within the data world the fund will focus on.
  • Who are some of the current players within their portfolio that fall into the big data space.
  • What trends Ping’s seeing within the field of Big Data.
  • How to engage with Accel and why it would make sense to work with them.

Extra-credit reading:

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