MapReduce
18th Jul 2012
What is Common between Mumbai Dabbawalas and Apache Hadoop?
Mumbai Dabbawalas pick up the lunch box much later and manage to deliver it just in time for lunch preserving the warmth of the home food. The whole process repeats in the evening when they collect the empty boxes to drop them back at the respective households. So, what is special about it and how is this related to Apache Hadoop? Keep reading!
3rd Apr 2012
Introduction to Big Data & Hadoop Ecosystem - Part 1
We live in the data age! Web has been growing rapidly in size as well as scale during the last 10 years and shows no signs of slowing down. Statistics show that every passing year more data gets generated than all the previous years combined. Moore's law not only holds true for hardware but for data being generated too. Without wasting time for coining a new phrase for such vast amounts of data, the computing industry decided to just call it, plain and simple, Big Data.