Roaring Elephant

A new function is being called into being by Forrester called the "Data Hunter" which sounded interesting enough to us to spend some time on. Then we cover a nice guest blog on the Cloudera site and we finish off with some rambling on he changes in the HPC world. Enjoy! Loincloths and spears to the ready: the Data Hunter is born! Dave found a small arcticle on the Forrester site that points to a paid webinar about Data Hunting. Now we did not pony up the 300$ they charge for the webinar, but we found the concept quite compelling and looked at the three "audience questions" that were included in the article. The "Small File Problem" and a little "You're Doing it Wrong"...? This guest blog on the Cloudera web site actually has some practical information that can be useful when you need to consolidate your incremental upload files to reduce the amount of files your Hive queries need to traverse. The additional complexity here was that this had to happen on a live production environment without service inter