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 MRUnit lets developers write unit tests that can be used in detecting problems with MapReduce jobs before their run on the database itself.By unit testing Hadoop's MapReduce jobs, developer can avoid useless resource consumption, a good habit to...
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...
Apache CouchDB was initially developed at IBM and donated later on to the Apache Software Foundation.Compared to other databases around, CouchDB is still very young, but this has not stopped it from gathering quite a following in its short lifespan.The...
Apache BookKeeper was built on top of Apache ZooKeeper, a centralized distribution server where information and configurations about distributed applications can be managed.BookKeeper uses ZooKeeper's underlying code to manage, centralize and distribute...
Apache Tobago is currently being developed at Apache under the MyFaces project.Tobago is basically an UI framework (also known as a "GUI library"), but not like Bootstrap or Foundation, relying more on Java code than classic HTML and CSS.The project's...
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...
The Apache Whirr libraries are written in Java, with sprinkles of XML and Python.They were written and compiled to provide a single-tool solution to work with the plethora of cloud services and cloud-based tools popping out everywhere on the Internet...
Apache RAT stands for Release Audit Tool.RAT provides a simplified methods for analyzing, comprehending and auditing source code projects, releases and distributions.This tools works via an heuristic method, trying to guess possible problems and...
Apache Archiva helps developers manage personal or enterprise artifact repositories.An artifact repository is a central hub where information about software binaries and adjacent files is stored in the form of metadata.This data can be used by various...
