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Hey, We're on iteration 2 for this course, and it's still in somewhat rough shape. If you plan to devote significant time to the lectures, I'd recommend waiting until next spring, …

Avro defines both a row-major and a column-major layout for files: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-806 .

For more details on Oozie, see http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2010/07/whats-new-in-cdh3-b2-oo... .

There's been some work to add indexing to Hive. See http://www.slideshare.net/NikhilDeshpande/indexed-hive and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1803 , for example.

Independence from Red Hat, since Red Hat sees VMware as their biggest competitor: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/199870/red_hat...

Facebook gave options to employees for referrals early in their history. At some point we'll switch to cash at Cloudera as well.

from my perspective, a single user interface paradigm is unlikely to cover the variety of use cases that the full suite of hadoop platform services (flume, sqoop, hdfs, mapreduce, …

Not true at all. They do have other lines of business, but their databases business continues to grow. See http://seekingalpha.com/article/185179-sybase-inc-q4-2009-ea... , e.g.

After participating in a few of the XLDB meetups, at which the requirements for and design of SciDB were debated and discussed, I was quite excited about this project. I was kicked…

Hive has ODBC and JDBC drivers. What SQL functionality are you missing?

Google also kept the RPC side of Protocol Buffers, which is called Stubby, as an internal project.

Everest was replaced by Hadoop + Pig, Yahoo's take on a Hive-like system. Both Hive and Pig allow you to use SQL.

I thought Microsoft did a good job of adding a procedural-like feel to SQL with SCOPE's virtual views; see http://icme2007.org/~jrzhou/pub/Scope.pdf for more. PigLatin certainly is…

Just to be clear, I was never CTO of Facebook or anything close to it (thanks for that, though!). Dustin Moskovitz and Adam D'Angelo were the only two folks to hold that title that…

Facebook certainly has the expertise to build their own servers: http://www.facebook.com/techtalks#/video/video.php?v=2085616... and they are hiring Hardware Engineers: http://www.…

Well, Chris Mason is focused on btrfs, not so much ext4. See, e.g., http://www.insight24.com/webcasts/content-100695_1

Excel has incorporated software from Frontline Systems, rebranded as "Solver", for many years. Most heavy Excel users use it every day. I couldn't dig through the marketing speak e…

Okay, copy and paste from previous threads: We're hiring here at Cloudera. We're especially interested in web developers who have built and deployed large, extensible applications …

The early release program has already started and the product is in use.