MapR revs up HBase queries with M7 Hadoop distro  Solr search
engine means elephants don't need to chew big data cud
Evaluating the cost of a DDoS attack  You are not just imagining
it. Every commercial distributor of the Hadoop system for
storing and chewing through unstructured data has come up with
its own a different way to deliver something akin to SQL query
functionality while at the same time boosting the speed of ad
hoc queries.  MapR Technologies is one of the earlier Hadoop
disties and cooked up a proprietary file system that can look
like the familiar Network File System of Unix and Linux or the
Hadoop Distributed File System. The company promised last fall
to work its file system magic on the HBase database layer in
Hadoop, and now that code is ready for prime-time.  MapR gave a
preview of its HBase acceleration plans back in October when it
previewed its top-end M7 Edition. MapR now has three different
distributions.  M3 Edition is the freebie community version that
allows users to mount HDFS ju