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Spark Streaming

With Spark core, we can analyze batch of data (say, daily). With Spark Streaming, we analyze data in real time…

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Streaming Data

So far we assumed data is sitting on the cluster, but, we didn’t say how to get the data as…

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Query Engines

There are handful of solution to query the data in the whole cluster, or from a certain database. Hive and…

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Cassandra

A distributed NoSQL database with no point of failure (no master node). It has a query language CQL, similar to…

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External Data Storage

We can use and integrate external data storage, relational and non-relational databases to expose the data to transactional platform (like…

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Basics 5 min read

Tez

It runs on top of YARN. It’s an alternative to MapReduce. In fact, we can configure some of the tools…

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Mesos

It’s an alternative to YARN, yet it’s still different. It’s used by Twitter, not directly associated with Hadoop, and has…

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Hadoop
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Hadoop

This article is not a technical deep dive. It’s rather a quick glimpse over what tools are available and what…

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