Hadoop predictions for 2015
Hadoop adoption and innovation is moving forward at a fast pace, playing a critical role in today's data economy.
But, how fast and far will Hadoop go heading into 2015?
Prediction 1:Â Hadooponomics makes enterprise adoption mandatory. The jury is in. Hadoop has been ...
Hadoop-5 Undeniable Truths
Everyone knows sensationalist headlines can be distracting or inaccurate. The real problem with such overblown headlines is this: Superficial debates are slowing down the true potential of Hadoop, big data, and the evolution of traditional databases.
At Qubole we often receive calls from ...
7 Things You Must Know About Big Data Before Adoption
There is absolutely no doubt that the right use of big data helps businesses become more profitable. But for this to happen, there are things businesses must know.
Big data is the hottest technology trend going around right now. Crunching, analyzing ...
5 Big Data Hadoop Use Cases for Retail
Only in the last few years has the integration of big data and retail marketing become a method for customizing marketing campaigns to individuals -- and what a difference it has made. Previously, advertisers had to conduct focus groups, customer ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...