Big Data

Other Hadoop Technologies

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The list is quite big but quite a few are noteworthy to be mentioned:

  • Impala: 
    • Cloudera’s alternative Hortonwork’s Hive
    • Faster than Hive as it is always running. So the startup time is minimal.
  • Accumulo:
    • altenative to Hortonwork’s HBase.
    • Has cell based enhanced security model
  • Redis:
    • distributed in-memory data store like MemCached.
    • caching layer of many web applications
    • not only a caching tool but also data source
  • Ignite:
    • alternative to Redis
    • ACID and SQL support
  • ElesticSearch:
    • Amazon’s search and analytics engine
    • real time search as you type.
  • Kinesis:
    • Amazons alternative to Kafka.
    • real time search as you type.