Stinger and Tez: A primer
What is Stinger?
The Stinger initiative aims to redesign Hive to make it what people want today: Hive is currently used for large batch jobs and works great in that sense; but people also want interactive queries, and Hive is too ...
Top 10 Biggest Big Data Companies by Revenue
Everything about the big data market is big, especially the rate at which the market is growing. According to the Wikibon 2015 Big Data Market Shares report, big data market revenues grew by 22 percent last year alone. Here’s a ...
5 Enterprise Alternatives to Hadoop
Hadoop's progression from a large scale, batch oriented analytics tool to an ecosystem full of vendors, applications, tools and services has coincided with the rise of the big data market.
While Hadoop has become almost synonymous with the market in which ...
30 Coolest Big Data Business Analytics Vendors
Working with big data remains one of the biggest IT challenges that businesses, government agencies and other organizations face today. It's also one of the biggest opportunities for IT vendors and for solution and strategic service providers. The big data ...
Overview of HADOOP from its very Basic till a Career Path
That cute little yellow elephant that often pops up in your window is the symbol of a technology named as Hadoop. This is a java-based programming framework which helps in processing large sets of data. Today with the rise of ...
How is fault tolerance handled in Spark streaming?
Spark Streaming components
Data model
All data is modeled as RDDs, built by design with lineage of deterministic operations, i.e. any re-computation always leads to the same result. Essentially the same process (however with a different mechanism) as in Hadoop's fault-tolerance for ...
How to perform capacity planning for a Hadoop cluster
The number of machines, and specs of the machines, depends on a few factors: the volume of data (obviously), the data retention policy (how much can you afford to keep before throwing away), the type of workload you have (data ...
5 Big Data Trends Impacting Financial Institutions in 2025
The adoption of industry standards and more mature platforms will shift big data's focus from IT-driven infrastructure projects to business-driven data solutions. Those who adopt big data strategies early and aggressively will realize operational efficiencies and top-line growth.
In 2025, we ...
18 Most Top Paying Big Data certifications
Big data has officially become big business—look no further than the cloud, cognitive and big data offerings from IBM to see how much and how quickly those arenas have grown. And they’re continuing to grow at breakneck speed.
With that growth ...
3 Steps to Better Hadoop Management
It makes sense to get excited about the possibilities afforded by Apache™ Hadoop® YARN-based applications such as Spark, Storm, Presto and others to provide substantial business value. However, the actual tasks of managing and maintaining the environment should not get ...