eBay open sources a big, fast SQL-on-Hadoop database | Linux Today

eBay open sources a big, fast SQL-on-Hadoop database

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 24, 2014

Online auction site eBay has open sourced a database technology called Kylin that the company says enables fast queries over even petabytes of data stored in Hadoop. eBay isn’t a big data user on par with companies like Google and Facebook, but it does run technologies such as Hadoop at a fairly large scale and Kylin seems a good example of the type of innovation it’s doing on top of them.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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