What Is Hadoop, And How Does It Relate To Cloud?
Summary
Of late, Hadoop certification and training has attracted a lot of attention. Most people are really interested in knowing about its relationship with the cloud. In order to know more about it, one must understand the concept of big data.
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Relevance of Big Data
In today’s world, where operations are entirely dependent on business intelligence and utilize the platform of information warfare for execution of the same, data has become one of the most vital entities for execution of business and it is very ...
4 Considerations When Choosing a Hadoop Distribution
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Could Microsoft Cosmos Challenge Hadoop?
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Big Data stalwart DataRPM Takes On IBM’s Watson With “Sherlock”
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Using Hunk with Hadoop and Elastic MapReduce
Hunk is a relatively new product from Splunk for exploring and visualizing Hadoop and other NoSQL data stores. New in this release is support for Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce.Â
Hunk with Hadoop
Hadoop consists of two components, the first being a storage component called HDFS. HDFS can ...