In Pictures: 9 open source Big Data technologies to watch

With more and more companies storing more and more data and hoping to leverage it for actionable insights, Big Data is making a big splash these days. Open source technology is at the core of most Big Data initiatives. Here are nine key open source Big Data technologies to keep an eye on.

Scribe

Scribe is a server developed by Facebook and released in 2008. It is intended for aggregating log data streamed in real time from a large number of servers. Facebook designed it to meet its own scaling challenges, and it now uses Scribe to handle tens of billions of messages a day. It is available under the Apache License 2.0.

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