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, ...

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 ...

Hadoop Streaming allows developers to use virtually any programming language to create MapReduce jobs, but it’s a bit of a kludge. The MapReduce programming environment needs to be pluggable. I gave ...

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You’ll want to be familiar with the Apache Hadoop framework before you jump into Elastic MapReduce. It doesn’t take long to get the hang of it, though. Most developers can have a MapReduce application ...

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 ...