Overview: In this article I will discuss about HDFS, which is the underlying file system of Apache Hadoop framework. Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is a distributed storage space that spans across thousands of commodity hardware. This file system provides…
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 Are The Advanced Hadoop MapReduce Features?
The basic MapReduce programming explains the work flow details. But it does not cover the actual working details inside the MapReduce programming framework. This article will explain the data movement through the MapReduce architecture and the API calls used to…
Open API economy – Influencing the growth of big data and analytics?
The already-huge world of big data and analytics has got a fillip in the form of open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). The use of open APIs has been generating huge volumes of big data. Since open APIs are now accessed…
Hadoop key terms, Simplified
Overview: In the current technology landscape, big data and analytics are the two most important areas where people are taking lot of interest. The obvious reason behind this traction is – enterprises are getting business benefit out of these big…
What is the importance of Hadoop Architecture in Production Success?
Overview: Hadoop is a platform that is almost synonymous with Big Data. It is basically an open source framework that allows the storage and processing of clustered data-sets on a large scale. Primarily, the Hadoop architecture is known to comprise…
How big data is used to improve patient experience/patient outcomes?
Big data is being increasingly applied to improve patient experience and outcome globally. Patient experience and outcome have been largely neglected so far mainly because hospitals believed that it needed to connect unemotionally and objectively with its patients and treat…
What are the top Big Data Security & Privacy Challenges?
“Big Data” actually comprises of the huge amounts of data collected about every person on Earth and their surroundings. This data is collected by various organisations, companies and by the government as well. The data generated is extremely huge and…
How big data and recommendation systems can change our lives?
Recommendation systems have impacted or even redefined our lives in many ways. One example of this impact is how our online shopping experience is being redefined. As we browse through products, the Recommendation system offer recommendations of products we might…
How ‘Insights-as-a-service’ is growing based on big data?
Big data represents a goldmine of opportunities for companies. To sell their products and services, companies need to get customer insights continuously and big data offers that. However, it is not easy to extract insights, given the investments needed. Insights-as-a-service…
Can big data and predictive analytics prevent climate changes?
Climate change has been attracting a lot of attention for a long time. The adverse effects of climate change is being felt everywhere. For example, sea levels are rising, glaciers are melting, cities are experiencing recurring floods and deforestation is…
How big data can help travel industry?
Big data has been helping redefine the growth strategies of almost every industry or vertical you can name and the travel and hospitality sector cannot stay in isolation. Overall, the travel and hospitality industry faces the need to massively shift…
How to discover stolen data using Hadoop and Big data?
Data theft has been a big issue for quite some time. What adds to the problem is the long time taken to identify the theft. The longer it takes to detect data theft, the more difficult it is to find…