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Apache Hive, http://hive.apache.org/.

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Apache Oozie, http://incubator.apache.org/oozie/.

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Apache Zookeeper, http://zookeeper.apache.org/.

Cascading, http://cascading.org.

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GNU Octave, http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/.

Oracle XML DB, http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/xmldb/index.html.

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