Posts by MC Brown

Continuent are pleased to announced that Tungsten Replicator 5.1.1 and Tungsten Clustering 5.1.1 are now available to customers to download.

For both products, 5.1.1 is an important bug fix releases that addresses discovered in the 5.1.0 release.

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So here at Continuent we are working on multiple new targets for applying data using Tungsten Replicator. There are so many potential targets out there where people want to replicate data directly into a specific system, sometimes just for a specific data set, table, database or requirements. Yesterday afternoon, I started working on ElasticSearch – …

Tungsten Replicator has a really cool feature in that we can filter data as it goes past on the wire. The replicator itself is written entirely in Java and writing filters for it is not as straightforward as it looks, which is why the much better feature is just to use the JavaScript mechanism and …

I have a BoF session next week at OSCON next week: Migrating Data from MySQL and Oracle into Hadoop The session is at 7pm Tuesday night – look for rooms D135 and/or D137/138. Correction: We...

I have a BoF session next week at OSCON next week: Migrating Data from MySQL and Oracle into Hadoop The session is at 7pm Tuesday night – look for rooms D135 and/or D137/138. Correction: We are now in E144 on Tuesday with the Hadoop get together first at 7pm, and the Data Migration to follow at …

I’m pleased to say that Continuent will be at the Hadoop Summit in San Jose next week (3-5 June). Sadly I will not be attending as I’m taking an exam next week, but my colleagues Robert Hodges, Eero Teerikorpi and Petri Versunen will be there to answer any questions you have about Continuent products, and, of …

One of the key platforms I’ve been testing on for the MySQL to Hadoop replication has been Cloudera, largely driven by customer requirements, but it’s also one of the easiest way to get started with Hadoop. What I’m even more pleased about is the fact that we are proud to announce that Tungsten Replicator 3.0 is …

Hopefully by now you have already seen that we are working on Hadoop replication. I’m happy to say that it is going really well. I’ve managed to push a few terabytes of data and different data sets through into Hadoop on Cloudera, HortonWorks, and Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce (EMR). For those who have been following my …