Facebook tackles Hadoop Achilles' Heel

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Running what they believe is the world's largest Hadoop-based collection of data, Facebook engineers have developed a way to circumnavigate a core weakness of the data analysis platform, that of relying on only a single name server to coordinate all operations.

http://www.itworld.com/big-datahadoop/281136/facebook-tackles-hadoop-achilles-heel