Data transfer between MySql and Cassandra using Sqoop
Sqoop is a tool designed to transfer data between Hadoop and relational databases. You can use Sqoop to import data from a relational database management system (RDBMS) such as MySQL or Oracle into the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), transform ...
Top 12 funded Big Data Startup companies
Big data companies are attracting big investments from venture capitalists. But which startups are garnering the most funding? Venture capitalists made more big data investments than ever before in 2012, and a few more deals have already closed in 2013. ...
Apache Hadoop 2.3.0 was released
Hadoop-2.3.0 is the first release for the year 2014, and brings a number of enhancements to the core platform, in particular to HDFS. There are a lot of bug fixes and small changes in this one - you can read ...
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 ...
Why Big Data Applications Are Already a Reality
The advent of the Internet and World Wide Web changed many things in the technology landscape. Information began to become widely accessible. Individuals began to connect with one another online. Merchants began to market and sell their products digitally, sometimes ...
How MapR’s M7 Platform Improves NoSQL and Hadoop
The M7 Edition. Sounds like a high performance sports car, doesn’t it? In reality, M7 is MapR’s enterprise-grade platform that provides its own unique brand of high-performance, dependability and ease of use to both NoSQL and Hadoop applications. M7 removes ...
MariaDB-An Open Source Alternative and Replacement of MySQL
MySQL was the best open source database in the market before Sun Microsystems purchased it. After this, Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems and MySQL came in the hands of Oracle. After this purchase a fair number of MySQL users started looking ...
MongoDB vs CouchDB-Open Source NoSQL and Document Databases Comparison
MongoDB and CouchDB are both document-oriented databases. MongoDB and CouchDB are the best examples of open source NoSQL database. Aside from both storing documents though, it turns out that they don't share much in common. There are a lot of ...
Types and Examples of NoSQL Databases
NoSQL databases are growing with very rapid speed because of their exciting features like more flexibility and scalability, schema-free architecture, easy replication support, simple API, consistent / BASE (not ACID), support for big data and more.
What is NoSQL database?
NoSQL is ...
Exploring The Hadoop Network Topology
Hadoop is designed to run on large clusters of commodity servers – in many cases spanning many physical racks of servers. A physical rack is in many cases a single point of failure (for example, having typically a single switch ...