Hadoop 2.0 and YARN Architecture
What is Hadoop 2.0 & YARN?
First off, a big kudos to Hortonworks for the great webinar by Arun C. Murthy ( who by the way was one of the primary people in building/releasing YARN) in which this post is based ...
120 Companies Hiring Hadoop Developers
There has been a consistent growth in the demand for people who know Big Data, Hadoop and related technologies. Demand is basically coming from two sectors, one is where data processing environment is already mature like Data warehousing, Data Integration ...
Riak Enterprise 2.0 enhances NoSQL database usability
For organizations that deal with large quantities of data, the NoSQL database is a popular choice. However, it can present problems for traditional database programmers.
For this reason developers are always on the look out for ways to build applications more ...
An introduction to Apache Hadoop for big data
Apache Hadoop is an open source software framework for storage and large scale processing of data-sets on clusters of commodity hardware. Hadoop is an Apache top-level project being built and used by a global community of contributors and users. It ...
NoSQL, NewSQL, or RDBMS-How To Choose
When should you choose a NoSQL or NewSQL option versus a conventional relational database management system? Here are 10 telltale traits that will help you make the right choice.
Today's databases are not only expected to be flexible enough to handle ...
6 sparkling features of Apache Spark!
What is Apache Spark? Why there is a serious buzz going-on about this? If you are into BigData analytics business then, should you really care about Spark? Hope this post will help to answer some of these questions which might have ...
How Big Data Can Help You Make Money
Making money with big data is not difficult if you already have a business in place. Numerous businesses have become more profitable, efficient, and productive when using big data. Since 91 percent of businesses use big data to make money, ...
Top 10 worst big data practices
1. Choosing MongoDB as your big data platform. Why am I picking on MongoDB? I'm not, but for whatever reason, the NoSQL database most abused at this point is MongoDB. While MongoDB has an aggregation framework that tastes like MapReduce ...
Data Science –What’s the big deal about it?
Thomas Davenport, an American academic and publisher for Harvard Business Review, once said that Data Scientist is “the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century”. But why is there such a big hype and mythos about Data Scientists and Data Science?
The ...
Why Extended Attributes are Coming to HDFS
Extended attributes in HDFS will facilitate at-rest encryption for Project Rhino, but they have many other uses, too.
Many mainstream Linux filesystems implement extended attributes, which let you associate metadata with a file or directory beyond common “fixed” attributes like filesize, ...