Apache Hadoop was initially developed by Yahoo and the project is a combination between the previous Apache Hadoop Core and Apache Hadoop Common repos. The Hadoop project has gained a lot of notoriety thanks to its great results in implementing a...
Apache Mahout was created to help Java developers write scaling machine learning algorithm. Mahout is meant to handle huge data loads, along with business-level code, all under an open source license, but at commercial-grade results. Currently the Mahout...
Apache POI was designed to work with the Office Open XML standards (OOXML) and Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format (OLE2). Using POI, developers can read and write MS Excel files, MS Word files, MS PowerPoint files and MS Outlook messages...
Apache Chukwa can be used to log the activity that happens into a complex Hadoop distributed computing system. Chukwa will help developers track down problems and solve bugs in the data processing applications, by providing a toolkit for not only...
Apache Libcloud was created to simplify the process of writing cloud-based services and applications. Libcloud offers a common API which developers can use to abstract their operations onto, and let the library's code handle all the differences between...
Axis2 is the successor to the widely used Apache Axis SOAP implementation. While the original Axis project worked with SOAP 1.0, Axis2 implements the newer SOAP 1.1 and 1.2 stacks. Besides support for the newer version of the protocol, core changes have...
Apache Avro provides a way to serialize data using JSON schemas. These schema files are always present with the data, allowing developers to ship both the data and its structure to any application that may need it. Because of this data can be read and...
Apache jUDDI is a basic tool for building enterprise-ready Web services to use in your Java applications. The UDDI protocol itself is a XML-based markup language that sets up a series of protocols for describing and discovering data and other resources...
Apache NiFi was created for distributed computing systems where data is processed on multiple servers before being sent to the user or to a storage container. While this might seem as a very complicated and time-consuming task, NiFi comes with a Web-based...
Apache Cassandra was initially built by Facebook for their own servers and services, using principles developed by Google and Amazon for BigTable and DynamoDB. Currently the project was donated to the Apache Foundation who continues to developed it...
