I gave an introductory talk on Hadoop yesterday at the Visual Studio Live! conference in Las Vegas. During the talk, I discussed how Hadoop Streaming, a utility which allows arbitrary executables to ...

Introduction Ever wanted to code your own MapReduce application using Java and run it on Hortonworks Sandbox? This tutorial helps you to do just that :) This tutorial takes up a sample scenario - Poll ...

Google and its MapReduce framework may rule the roost when it comes to massive-scale data processing, but there’s still plenty of that goodness to go around. This article gets you started with Hadoop, ...

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Some simple, kinda introductory projects based on Apache Hadoop to be used as guides in order to make the MapReduce model look less weird or boring. In this task, we had to calculate the average ...

This implementation is intended for illustration purposes only and the examples lack exception handling acceptable for production systems. Beyond showcasing an implementation of the MapReduce concept, ...

When the Big Data moniker is applied to a discussion, it’s often assumed that Hadoop is, or should be, involved. But perhaps that’s just doctrinaire. Hadoop, at its core, consists of HDFS (the Hadoop ...