MapReduce: Working Through Data-Intensive Text Processing

It has been a while since I last posted, as I’ve been busy with some of the classes offered by…

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Apache Bigtop – Installing Hive, HBase and Pig

In the previous post we learnt how easy it was to install Hadoop with Apache Bigtop! We know its not…

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Apache Bigtop – Installing Hadoop

Ah!! The name is everywhere, carried with the wind. Apache Hadoop!! The BIG DATA crunching platform! We all know how…

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A SMALL cross-section of BIG Data

Big data is a term applied to data sets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools…

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The problems in Hadoop – When does it fail to deliver?

Hadoop is a great piece of software. It is not original but that certainly does not take away its glory.…

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Big Data analytics with Hive and iReport

Each J.J. Abrams’ TV series Person of Interest episode starts with the following narration from Mr. Finch one of the…

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Hadoop Modes Explained – Standalone, Pseudo Distributed, Distributed

After Understanding What is Hadoop Lets start Hadoop on Single Machine: This post contains instructions for Hadoop installation on ubuntu.…

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Hadoop: A Soft Introduction

What is Hadoop: Hadoop is a framework written in Java for running applications on large clusters of commodity hardware and…

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