I can help you bringing your project to success using proven and innovative technologies.

NoSQL - relational databases are great, mature and weather proven. Yet sometimes, the benefits of specialized non-SQL technologies offer major advantages:

• Apache Hadoop as a massively distributed data store and analytics environment
• JCR/Apache Jackrabbit for agile content and document management
• Apache Lucene for flexibel and fast information retrieval

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• Apache Lucene
• Apache Hadoop Map/Reduce

I am a member of the Apache Software Foundation and currently the Project Management Committee chair for Apache Labs.

As time permits, I'm also working on Apache Vysper which is a XMPP/Jabber server including Multi-User Chat and Publish/Subscribe.

Chukwa is a reporting tools running on Apache Hadoop. It's currently in incubation at Apache Incubator and I try to help this process as a mentor.

For the german Javamagazin, I'm writing a monthly column called Flinke Feder .