Showing posts with label distributed computing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label distributed computing. Show all posts

Friday, September 30, 2011

Java, Oracle and Hadoop

Was reading the summary of a /. article ( http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/30/1855204/oracle-proud-self-reliant-increasingly-isolated )and it got be wondering again - what is the fate of Hadoop and the JDK.

Kind of wonder what it would take for a new implementation of hadoop ( or similar implementation ) but in a different language. What if Oracle were to basically reach a point where there was the public domain Java that goes basically stagnant and a commercial version for-pay suddenly exploding the cost of your cluster beyond servers and some switches.

Sure there are some other frameworks ( MongoDB, Cassandra, probably many others ) but in the same idea as the marriage of HDFS and the map/reduce framework itself.

Would OpenJDK even be an option? I've not tried using it for anything. Then again, I just administer hadoop clusters I don't program for them ;)