Cascading is an application framework for Java developers to simply develop robust Data Analytics and Data Management applications on Apache Hadoop. Learn.more.

Lingual is ANSI SQL for Cascading on Apache Hadoop through an API, JDBC Driver, and command shell. Learn.more.

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Lingual Public Access

Lingual is now available for download or build. See the Lingual page for details, or visit the Lingual project page.

Lingual’s Architecture

Julian Hyde discusses how Optiq and Cascading work together to become Lingual.

Cascading Lingual – True SQL for Cascading and Hadoop

Announcing Lingual, a new framework that executes ANSI SQL queries as Cascading applications on Apache Hadoop clusters. Read more about it on the Lingual project page, signup for announcements on the mail list, or read the press release.

Cascading 2.2 WIP and CoercibleTypes

Cascading 2.2 is starting to take shape for those interested in test driving emerging features. Of note is “field type” support. This allows fields read from an input file to have type information retained through to where the data is sinked/stored to a file. This…

Cascading 2.1

We are happy to announce that Cascading 2.1 is now publicly available for download. http://www.cascading.org/downloads/ This release includes a number of new features. Specifically: – Restartable Flows using Checkpointing – Improved memory utilization and gc – Refactored build system, source and javadoc jars now available…

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