Introduction Since the time when Big Data was introduced it has gone through multiple phases of evolution. Hadoop was introduced in 2005 with some initial features such as the MapReduce processing engine which allowed large scale data processing workloads distributed…
Big Data and Education Industry
Overview: Big data has been driving revolutionary changes in education. There hardly remains an area in education not impacted by big data. You can notice the changes in the ways educational institutions are governed, course quality is managed and student…
Big Data characteristics and pain points
Overview Big data is based on three most important characteristics, known as volume, velocity and veracity. It comes in different forms and structure. Big data analytics is having significant impact in business decision. But it comes with some pain points.…
How Open Data Platform simplifies Hadoop adoption?
Overview The Open Data Platform (ODP) is an industry initiative focused on simplifying the adoption of Apache Hadoop by the Enterprise and enabling Big Data solutions to thrive with better ecosystem interoperability. It builds on the strengths of the Apache…
Exploring Zeta Architecture
Overview: The Zeta Architecture is a new way of setting up your solution and enterprise architecture. When you are deploying the Zeta architecture, you combine your solution and enterprise architecture unlike the way architecture systems are used now. Traditionally, the…
Measuring the ROI in Hadoop adoption
Overview: Nowadays, people seem to be really misinformed about Hadoop, mainly due to lots of half-truths that are fluttering about it in the market. However, all these half-truths were normal as Hadoop is said to be one of the best…
SQL on Hadoop – How does it work?
Overview: SQL on Hadoop is a group of analytical application tools that combine the SQL-style querying and processing of data with the most recent Hadoop data framework elements. The emergence of SQL on Hadoop is an important development for big…
Want to know about Big Data myths?
Overview Big data, data science, and big data analytics are perhaps some of the hottest terms in today’s technology world. But, at the same time there is a lot of misunderstanding and confusion about those terms. So people start thinking…
Big data (Hadoop) as a service – How does it work?
Overview: In today’s technology world, software as a service (SaaS) is a common model. The service if offered to the subscribers as per need basis. Big data is also following the service model. In this article, I will talk about the…
Pairing of IOT and Hadoop
Overview: The Internet of Things (IoT) is the new reality that is going to penetrate into our lives. According to Gartner, the number of interconnected devices will increase to 6.4 billion in 2016, up by 30% from 2015, thus generating…
Hadoop Basic concepts – Learn it now
Introduction: In this series, we will discuss some of the basic concepts in Hadoop and big data. We have tried to cover basic concepts and explain them to make it easy to learn and implement. We will keep on adding…
How Hadoop Streaming works?
Overview: Hadoop streaming is one of the most important utility in Hadoop distribution. The Streaming interface of Hadoop allows you to write Map-Reduce program in any language of your choice, which can work with STDIN and STDOUT. So, Streaming can…
What is Hadoop Streaming?
Ans : Hadoop streaming is a powerful utility which comes with Hadoop distribution.The basic concept of Hadoop framework is to split the job,process it in parallel and then join it back to get the end result.So there are two main…