Hive for Oracle Developers and DBAs - Part I

The Hadoop ecosystem emerged as a cost-effective way of working with large data sets. It imposes a particular programming model, called MapReduce, for breaking up computation tasks into units that can be distributed around a cluster of commodity, server class hardware, thereby providing cost-effective, horizontal scalability.

Hadoop Administration: Accessing HDFS (File system & Shell Commands)

You can access HDFS in many different ways. HDFS provides a native Java application programming interface (API) and a native C-language wrapper for the Java API. In addition, you can use a web browser to browse HDFS files. I'll be using CLI only in this post.

Hadoop Ecosystem - Quick Introduction

This is data age, data data everywhere. Although we cannot measure total volume of data stored electronically but it is estimated that 4.4 zettabytes in 2013 and is forecasting a tenfold growth by 2020 to 44 zettabytes. Clearly we can say this is Zettabyte Era. A zettabyte is equal to one thousand exabytes, one million petabytes, or one billion terabytes.

Big Data - The Bigger Picture

I’ve put the title with "The Bigger Picture" instead of "The Big Picture" because even big picture comes with much more details. The aim of this post is to provide a broad understanding of the topic without indulging into deeper details.