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The aim of the project is the practical use of basic data processing platforms used in Big Data environments. As part of each project, we will process two related data sets. Each project will consist ...

A MapReduce program to calculate the sum of the weights of all incoming edges for each node in the graph. Loaded two graph files into HDFS. Each file stores a list of edges as tab separatedvalues.

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, ...

When your data and work grow, and you still want to produce results in a timely manner, you start to think big. Your one beefy server reaches its limits. You need a way to spread your work across many ...

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 ...

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 ...