5 Keys to Big Data Success
As Big Data becomes more pervasive throughout farming, it’s important to understand what farmers need to make data collection and analysis successful, says John Fulton, Extension specialist at Auburn University.
"For many, there is no clear incentive or objective about the ...
Free Cloudera Impala Book
Get free Cloudera Impala, in PDF format, for free from the Cloudera website, in association with the Strata Conference and Hadoop World. See the below link for the book info from the publisher as well as the link to download ...
Hadoop Interview Questions – HDFS
Are you planning to pursue a career in Hadoop or looking out for a job opportunity in Hadoop? Here is list of Hadoop interview questions which covers HDFS
What is the difference between a Hadoop database and Relational Database?
Hadoop is not ...
Hive Interview Questions
What is Hive?
Hive is a data warehouse system for Hadoop that facilitates easy data summarization, ad-hoc queries, and the analysis of large datasets stored in Hadoop compatible file systems.
Hive was originally developed at Facebook. It’s now a Hadoop subproject with ...
BigData TechCon-Learn HOW TO Master Big Data, Mar 31-Apr 2, Boston
Big Data TechCon, March 31-April 2, Boston, is the “how-to” big data event. Use code BIGDATA for $200 discount. www.bigdatatechcon.com
Plan now to attend Big Data TechCon, March 31-April 2 in Boston, to learn HOW-TO accommodate the terabytes and petabytes of data ...
MongoDB Interview Questions
What were you trying to solve when you created MongoDB?
We were and are trying to build the database that we always wanted as developers. For pure reporting, SQL and relational is nice, but when building data always wanted something different: ...
YARN and MapReduce 2.0 elevates big data Hadoop and scheduled processing
Are you ready to take advantage of the multi-application functionality of Hadoop with MapReduce 2.0, or as it is more affectionately known, YARN? According to Arun Murthy, a big-data architect and a co-founder of Hortonworks, YARN substantially improves the functionality ...
3 Tools Companies Can Use to Harness the Power of Big Data
To the individual user, Big Data might simply mean a new 3-terabyte hard drive, which can be acquired for a hundred bucks or so. But real Big Data projects require clusters of servers, vast amounts of storage, and specialized software ...
Big Data In 2014-6 Bold Predictions
How will big data evolve in 2014? The future is anyone's guess, of course, but we thought we'd compile a tasty holiday assortment of prognostications from executives working in the big data trenches. So without further delay, here they are ...
Big Data 2.0-the next generation of Big Data
In the last few years we have seen Big Data generate a lot of buzz along with the launch of several successful big data products. The big data ecosystem has now reached a tipping point where the basic infrastructural capabilities ...