| Date | Aug. 3, 2012 |
| Speaker | Oren J. Falkowitz
(CEO / sqrrl) Adam Fuchs (CTO / sqrrl) and John Vines (sqrrl.co) |
| Topic | Completing the Big Data Ecosystem: sqrrl and Accumulo |
| Abstract: | In a world where mastery of big data leads to competitive advantage,
adaptability and scalability are the new driving factors for analytical
infrastructure. Founders of the Apache Accumulo project have recently
launched sqrrl, a Boston based startup. sqrrl's mission is to support and
drive Accumulo and to provide a secure, scalable, and efficient discovery
analytic layer on top of Accumulo, exposing the new design patterns that
Accumulo brings. This talk will discuss the technology and techniques of
Accumulo and exemplify them through an application development
perspective.
Apache Accumulo, originally developed by the National Security Agency and now an Apache Software Foundation project, builds upon Google's Bigtable design to provide a scalable, lightly-structured database capability complementing the ubiquitous Hadoop environment. The core capabilities of Accumulo include cell-level security, flexible schemas, bulk I/O, and linear scalability beyond trillions of entries and petabytes of data. These new capabilities lead to techniques that unlock the power of Big Data, but don't fit into traditional database design patterns.
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