List/Grid Tag Archives: Big Data

Lets Crunch big data
As developers our focus is on simpler, effective solutions and thus one of the most valued principle is “Keep it simple and stupid”. But with Hadoop map-reduce it was a bit hard ...

MapReduce: Working Through Data-Intensive Text Processing – Local Aggregation Part II
This post continues with the series on implementing algorithms found in the Data Intensive Processing with MapReduce book. Part one can be found here. In the previous post, we discussed ...

MapReduce: Working Through Data-Intensive Text Processing
It has been a while since I last posted, as I’ve been busy with some of the classes offered by Coursera. There are some very interesting offerings and is worth a look. Some time ago, ...

BAM, SOA & Big Data
Leveraging Big Data has become a commodity for most IT departments. It’s like the mobile phone. You can’t remember the times when you couldn’t just call someone from your mobile, ...

Running Cassandra in a Multi-node Cluster
This post gathers the steps I followed in setting up an Apache Cassandra cluster in multi-node. I have referred Cassandra wiki and Datastax documentation in setting up my cluster. The ...

Apache Bigtop – Installing Hive, HBase and Pig
In the previous post we learnt how easy it was to install Hadoop with Apache Bigtop! We know its not just Hadoop and there are sub-projects around the table! So, lets have a look at ...

Apache Bigtop – Installing Hadoop
Ah!! The name is everywhere, carried with the wind. Apache Hadoop!! The BIG DATA crunching platform! We all know how alien it can be at start too! Phew!!Its my personal experience, ...

Fast, Predictable & Highly-Available @ 1 TB/Node
The world is pushing huge amounts of data to applications every second, from mobiles, the web, and various gadgets. More applications these days have to deal with this data. To preserve ...

Why are Enterprises looking at BigData?
The advent of the Social Collaboration, Online Selling, Digital Goods, Mobile means every enterprise wants to process the transactional and analytical data, that is being collected ...

Big Data Trends in 2012
Bigdata has caught the fancy of each and everyone. Consumer and enterprise world is looking to adopt the Bigdata. Analysts are talking about it, proclaiming it to the next big thing! ...


