Apache Ambari

Apache Ambari project is available at Apache Ambari Site

This project is for operations team who are managing, provisioning and monitoring Hadoop clusters. This has intuitive web UI. Ambari does not support windows operating system currently.

There is similar product released by Cloudera called HUE or Hadoop User Experience.

Ambari leverages Ganglia and Nagios for some of it's features.

This is still an incubator project, so expect more activities on this.


--Tejas Bavishi

Google BigQuery

Google has introduced BigQuery or BigData analytics at cheap price. It is available at - Google BigQuery

This is suited to applications that have Big Data platform like Hadoop for managing bulk of data in Terabytes.

The data can be loaded to Google BigQuery either using Google Cloud Storage or via HTTP post job.

Once data is in, it can be queried and used by many applications like for example, there is Java client library which can connect to Google BigQuery and fetch data for analytical applications.

There are many tutorial videos about features of Google BigQuery available at - Google BigQuery tutorial videos

Thanks
Tejas Bavishi