Big Data

Introduction To Hadoop

A Brief History of Hadoop: Hadoop was created by Doug Cutting, the creator of Apache Lucene, the widely used text search library. Hadoop has its origins in Apache Nutch, an open source web search engine, itself a part of the Lucene project. The Origin Of The Name “hadoop”. Hadoop is not an acronym; it’s a made-up name. The...

by Pavan
Tag: big data
21-Apr-2014

Big Data

What is Big Data?

Big Data is a collection of high-volume, high-velocity and high-variety information assets that demand cost-effective, innovative forms of information processing for enhanced insight and decision making. Big data is data that exceeds the processing capacity of conventional database systems. The data is too big to fit traditional...

by Shagun Bhardwaj
Tag: big data
21-Apr-2014