[NY Hadoop User Group meetup] 11/10 Katta and a Case Study

Stefan Groschupf will present two topics:

"Katta – how to distribute Lucene indexes in a grid.”
Katta is a young open source project that helps to serve very large indexes or very heavy loaded indexes.
Stefan will give an overview of the architecture, discuss functionality and API. Further more Stefan will explain how to use katta as large distributed data storage with xpath style queries support.

"A Case Study - An experience report and architectural overview of a production system”
Stefan will share his experience building a production system to process millions of events with a hadoop cluster, generate trend alerts and reports with hadoop, pig and katta.

About the speaker:

Stefan is an active member of the Open Source Community working on distributed file system, map reduce and search engine implementation projects. Stefan also contributed to “Nutch” a set of things like the nutch plugin system.
Over the past 10 years Stefan is consulting on Internet and database projects for BMW, Intel, Siemens and Hoffmann La Roche, Krugle many more. Currently Stefan is CTO at Sproose (a user powered search engine).