MapReduce Questions and Answers Part 2

4 Inverting Indexing for Text Retrieval The chapter contains a lot of details about integer numbers encoding and compression. Since…

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MapReduce Questions and Answers Part 1

With all the hype and buzz surrounding NoSQL, I decided to have a look at it. I quickly found that…

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MapReduce for dummies

Continuing the coverage on Hadoop component, we will go through the MapReduce component. MapReduce is a concept that has been…

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Joins with Map Reduce

I have been reading on Join implementations available for Hadoop for past few days. In this post I recap some…

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Word Count MapReduce with Akka

In my ongoing workings with Akka, i recently wrote an Word count map reduce example. This example implements the Map…

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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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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: 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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MapReduce: A Soft Introduction

MapReduce is a parallel programming technique made popular by Google. It is used for processing very large amounts of data.…

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