A quick look at a sample Java program will help you get your bearings in MapReduce. This application implements a very simple version of the MapReduce framework, but isn’t built on Hadoop.

Learning Hadoop is a piece of cake for the Java developers as they don't need to put extra effort into it. Like Jave, Hadoop also uses Javascript for its programming.

“Spring Hadoop was created to make it more straightforward for enterprise Java developers to use Apache Hadoop,” Fitzgerald said. With the integration, VMWare has taken Spring’s dependency ...

One company called Cloudera (which VentureBeat recently profiled) is commercializing the Java-based open source Hadoop implementation, but that may not be the most efficient.

SAN FRANCISCO -- VMware this week introduced its Spring Hadoop software, which is intended to make it easier for Java developers utilizing the Spring Framework to leverage Apache Hadoop data ...

Microsoft's Hadoop distribution, which it is building in partnership with Hortonworks, includes the core HDFS and MapReduce, plus a bunch more.