Apache Hadoop 1.0 released [LWN.net]

The Apache Software Foundation has announced the release of Hadoop 1.0. "A foundation of Cloud computing and at the epicenter of "big data" solutions, Apache Hadoop enables data-intensive distributed applications to work with thousands of nodes and exabytes of data. Hadoop enables organizations to more efficiently and cost-effectively store, process, manage and analyze the growing volumes of data being created and collected every day. Apache Hadoop connects thousands of servers to process and analyze data at supercomputing speed."

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Apache Hadoop 1.0 released

Posted Jan 5, 2012 9:22 UTC (Thu) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link] (1 responses)

There seems to be lately a lot of 1.0 releases of projects that were incubating for some time already. I remember using Hadoop for one of my university projects about 4 years ago. It was very nice and very usable even back then, even though, now it seems, it was 4 years before it was "finished" ;)

I wonder if it means we'll finally see the 1.0 release of MPlayer real soon now ;)

Apache Hadoop 1.0 released

Posted Jan 5, 2012 11:00 UTC (Thu) by aristedes (guest, #35729) [Link]

I think it has a lot to do with whether the versioning is driven by marketing (Firefox) or engineering (such as most things at Apache).

I've always thought there is a PhD thesis in analysing versioning of software. The psychology of Windows going from numerical versions to letters (XP/vista) and then back again to numbering. The browser race to the largest version number (Chrome definitely winning). The developers who consider it a point of pride that they will only reach 1.0 when the product is perfect in every way. The loss of versioning entirely with web SaaS (so updates are far more incremental and invisible) and the consequent issues around convincing the public that the product is continuing to improve.