Wolfram|Alpha, a "Computational Search Engine", will launch on May 18, giving people access to a wealth of "computable" facts and algorithms. It takes queries in simple English and produces all sorts of results in the form of tables, charts and diagrams.
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I came across this new project under the apache umbrella, dubbed Hive, related to the hadoop initiative which implements a data warehouse infrastructure that takes advantage of the core MapReduce hadoop libraries to create a query execution engine for large scale data processing. The project is still in its early development stages, but the...
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