Some of you are highly organized, disciplined, and keep all your belongings arranged in an ordered manner. You can easily remember the location of all these items and will be able to fetch them in a short time. But there are people who are highly unorganized and keeps all their belongings in a random manner and will have no clue on where to look for an item when they really need it. This results in a search operation on all storage spaces in the house when they want to fetch an item. There is… Continue

By Siddartha Mani

Few would argue with the statement that Hadoop HDFS is in decline. In fact, the HDFS part of the Hadoop ecosystem is in more than just decline - it is in freefall. At the time of its inception, it had a meaningful role to play as a high-throughput, fault-tolerant distributed file system. The secret sauce was data locality. 

By co-locating compute and data on the same nodes, HDFS overcame the limitations of slow network access to data. The…

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This blog is to give brief introduction about Hadoop for those who know next to nothing about this technology. Big Data is at the foundation of all the megatrends that are happening today, from social to the cloud to mobile devices to gaming. This blog will help to build the foundation to take the next step in learning this interesting technology. Let's get started:

1. What's Big Data?

Ever since…

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Hadoop – Introduction & features

Let us start with what is Hadoop and what are Hadoop features that make it so popular.

Hadoop is an open-source software framework for distributed storage and distributed processing of extremely large data sets. Important features of Hadoop are:

Hadoop is an open source project. It means its code can be modified to business requirements.

In Hadoop, data is highly available and…

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Hadoop is the leading open-source software framework developed for scalable, reliable and distributed computing. With the world producing data in the zettabyte range there is a growing need for cheap, scalable, reliable and fast computing to process and make sense of all of this data. The underlying technology for Hadoop framework was created by Google as there…

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Apache Hadoop announced a beta release for Hadoop 2. The Hadoop-2.1.0-beta…

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