Yahoo adds security and workflow management to Hadoop

Yahoo, which has championed the open source Apache Hadoop distributed computing platform, is adding capabilities for Kerberos security and workflow management to the platform.

The company on Tuesday will unveil the open source additions at the Yahoo-sponsored Hadoop Summit 2010 conference in Santa Clara, Calif., and donate them to the Apache Software Foundation.

[ InfoWorld's Paul Krill reported last week that Cloudera and Quest are linking Hadoop to Oracle databases. ]

Yahoo will integrate Hadoop with the Kerberos authentication standard, enabling more secure collaboration and sharing of authenticated data. Kerberos capabilities also allow for multi-tenancy, in which hardware can be used by multiple parties through authenticated access and processing of sensitive data, according to Yahoo, which developed and uses Hadoop.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-management/yahoo-adds-security-and-workflow-management-hadoop-633