Neo4j, A Graph Database For Building Recommendation Engines, Gets A Visual Overhaul
Part of the problem with any powerful technology is how it is perceived. It might be something that is too early for its time or it may just need those years of development and use for the market to catch ...
Hadoop Cluster Interview Questions
Which are the three modes in which Hadoop can be run?
The three modes in which Hadoop can be run are:
1. standalone (local) mode
2. Pseudo-distributed mode
3. Fully distributed mode
What are the features of Stand alone (local) mode?
In stand-alone mode there are ...
Bloom Filters in HBase and Chrome
Bloom Filters allows to efficiently check if a particular element/record is there in the set/table or not. It has very minimal impact on the insert operations. The only caveat is that it might return a false positive, Bloom filter might ...
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 Resources
History of Hadoop
Spotlight on the early history of Hadoop
The history of Hadoop: From 4 nodes to the future of data
Big Ideas: Demystifying Hadoop
What is MapReduce?
"Cluster Computing and MapReduce Lecture" series in YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjPBkvYh-ss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vD6PUdf3Js
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Eib_H_zCEY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZDybXl212Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT-piFBP4fE
http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html
http://code.google.com/edu/parallel/mapreduce-tutorial.htmlÂ
What is Hadoop?
http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/02/what-is-apache-hadoop.html
http://gigaom.com/cloud/what-it-really-means-when-someone-says-hadoop
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-1209hadoopbigdata/
What is HDFS?
The paper covers most of ...
Introduction to Apache Hive and Pig
Apache Hive is a framework that sits on top of Hadoop for doing ad-hoc queries on data in Hadoop. Hive supports HiveQL which is similar to SQL, but doesn't support the complete constructs of SQL.
Hive coverts the HiveQL query into ...
How to Get the Best Out of Big Data Solutions
Data has become the new raw material for businesses. And that’s how it should be in order to meet the dynamic needs of the current age. Thus, access to considerably large amounts of data and information always helps an organisation ...
Top 10 Big Data Trends in 2014
In January 2014, IDG published their latest big data enterprise survey and predictions for 2014 finding that on average, enterprises will spend $8M on big data –related initiatives in 2014. The study also found that 70% of enterprise organizations have ...
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 ...
Use Cases Of MongoDB
MongoDB is a relatively new contender in the data storage circle compared to giant like Oracle and IBM DB2, but it has gained huge popularity with their distributed key value store, MapReduce calculation capability and document oriented NoSQL features.
MongoDB has ...