Getting Started With Apache Hadoop Cheatsheet

1. Introduction Getting started with Apache Hadoop is a powerful ecosystem for handling big data. It allows you to store,…

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The beautiful simplicity of Apache Ranger plugin

If you are here, you already know what Apache Ranger is. It is the most popular, if not the only, way to…

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MapReduce Design Patterns Implemented in Apache Spark

This blog is a first in a series that discusses some design patterns from the book MapReduce design patterns and…

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Drill into Your Big Data Today with Apache Drill

Apache Drill has been gaining significant user adoption and community momentum since its initial Beta availability in September 2014. The…

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Hadoop: HDFS – java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSOutputSummer.(Ljava/util/zip/Checksum;II)V

I wanted to write a little program to check that one machine could communicate a HDFS server running on the…

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Big Data: What about Security?

From the first time Hadoop appeared it had a security problem. Apache Knox and Cloudera Manager have been solutions for…

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What is Big Data – Theory to Implementation

What is Big Data? You may ask; and more importantly why it is the latest trend in nearly every business…

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