Apache HBase was modeled after Google's internal BigTable database system and was built atop the famous Apache Hadoop data processing framework and distributed computing engine. Because it was built on Hadoop, some of its cool features are also inherited...
Apache Bigtop is for building easy to deploy Hadoop installations that can easily be installed on one or more clusters when needed. Bigtop includes tools to help developers create custom Hadoop packages with or without an underlying OS, making them easy...
Apache Karaf provides an OSGi container where components-based and modular systems can be deployed and accessed during the development, testing, or production stages. Karaf is easy to setup thanks to its multi-purpose configuration system that lets...
Apache Ambari allows database administrators to install, manage and monitor Hadoop clusters. Collecting metrics is done via Ganglia, while email alerts are sent out via Nagios. Amabari is basically a Web-based administration GUI for Hadoop, a tool that...
Apache Derby is one of the first database engines the Apache Software foundation hosted under its umbrella before big names like Yahoo's Hadoop, Facebook's Cassandra, or IBM's CouchDB were also donated to it. Coded from the beginning to...
Apache Tez makes it possible to create complex data processing workflows and jobs inside Hadoop databases, serving stored data in a "pre-computed" form, ready to be used as soon as its outputted. Tez takes data stored in various nodes in Hadoop, processes...
Apache ServiceMix, as the name hints, allows developers to mix various technologies like Activiti, Apache ActiveMQ, Karaf, CXF, OpenJPA, Aries, and Camel, helping developers build large business and enterprise ready applications. Each of these third-party...
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 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 Axiom is the core library used in the Apache Axis2 project. The Axiom library allows developers to build fictive object tree models (DOMs) for dealing with SOAP and XML streams. Two implementations are included by default with Axiom, one using...
