Posted by Marc Sturlese
01 Apr 09 ApacheCon Europe 2009
Last week I had the chance to go to the ApacheCon Europe 2009. The event took place in Mövenpick Hotel, Amsterdam. I had a really good time in there.
Was good to share use cases and experiences in person with people who I had just spoken with in forums.
I spend the first two days in the [...]
Tags: ApacheCon, Events, Hadoop, HBase, Lucene, Mahout, Open source, Pig
Posted by Marc Sturlese
02 Mar 09 Index scalability using Pig
Here is a really interesting example of how to build an inverted index using Pig. As I have seen in Hadoop, to create a Lucene index you must start from a text file and use MapReduce jobs to build it. Pig however, allows you to retrieve data not just from a text file but from [...]
