Best resources to learn and understand Hadoop
Here are some best resource to learn and understand Hadoop.
Tutorials
Free videos - MapR Academia
Udacity course
Hortonworks Sandbox
Hadoop Ecosystem
Running Hadoop Map-Reduce
Hadoop Screencasts
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Pivotal Launches Its Big Data Suite
When Pivotal was spun out of VMware and EMC, many people were excited about a well-funded entity, chock full of some of the coolest modern tech, and without the hang-ups of having to think about existing products or revenue streams. ...
Pivotal Brings In-Memory Analysis To Hadoop
Pivotal, the EMC spin-off company pursuing modern application development in the context of cloud computing and big-data analysis, on Monday released Pivotal HD 2.0, an update of its Hadoop distribution incorporating an in-memory database and a battery of new analysis ...
SQL is what’s next for Hadoop
Today all the companies are trying to let users run SQL queries from inside Hadoop as it is open-source software framework. Companies are using Hive and HiveQL languages in Hadoop implementation but Hive is mainly depends on MapReduce. Business intelligence ...
16 Top Big Data Analytics Platforms
Revolutionary. That pretty much describes the data analysis time in which we live. Businesses grapple with huge quantities and varieties of data on one hand, and ever-faster expectations for analysis on the other. The vendor community is responding by providing ...
Hadoop still too slow for real-time analysis applications?
With all the buzz that Hadoop is generating in IT circles these days, it's easy to start thinking that the open source distributed processing framework can handle just about anything in big data environments. But real-time analysis involving ad hoc ...
Pivotal partners with Capgemimi on Big Data
IT consultancy joins Pivotal party to help both firms make sense of big data.
EMC’s “billion dollar start-up” Pivotal has teamed with IT consultancy Capgemini to support the development of its big data offerings.
The firms said the partnership would bring together ...
Big Data new favourite in decision making
Even as adoption of Big Data technology is on the rise to make better business decisions, companies are also concerned about lack of skilled workforce to keep pace with the rate of IT innovation, a study by IT firm EMC ...
Big data getting big for India Inc
In India, big data is giving rise to markedly improved decision making and is having a significant impact on companies competitive differentiation and ability to avert risk, said a study.
Almost 91% of Indian businesses surveyed reported that better uses of ...
Big Data Opens New Doors For Financial Analysts
Big data is changing how lot of businesses operate, especially in the healthcare, industrial, and retail sectors, to name just a few. Finance is another area where big data is making its mark, as emerging technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL ...