Google Cloud Unveils Hadoop Connectors, New App Engine Version

April 21, 2014 Off By David

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Todd R. Weiss.

The Google Cloud Platform is expanding its capabilities with Hadoop through new connectors that can be used with Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Datastore to run Hadoop queries. Also bolstering the cloud platform is a new version of Google App Engine that includes scalability and performance improvements. The new Hadoop connectors were announced by Pratul Dublish, a cloud platform product manager, in an April 16 post on the Google Cloud Platform Blog.

"Today, we are making it easier for you to run Hadoop jobs directly against your data in Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Datastore with the Preview release of Google BigQuery connector and Google Cloud Datastore connector for Hadoop," wrote Dublish. "The Google BigQuery and Google Cloud Datastore connectors implement Hadoop’s InputFormat and OutputFormat interfaces for accessing data…

These two connectors complement the existing Google Cloud Storage connector for Hadoop, which implements the Hadoop Distributed File System interface for accessing data in Google Cloud Storage."…

See more at: http://www.eweek.com/cloud/google-cloud-unveils-hadoop-connectors-new-app-engine-version.html#sthash.FqfuQOBO.dpuf

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