Hadoop and big data
Parts, in publishing order
- Apache Hadoop and big data, part 1: what big data is, why Hadoop, and the problem
The three Vs of big data, its use cases and challenges, why traditional solutions fall short, how Hadoop answers them, and a 1 TB stock-price problem to test the answer.
- Apache Hadoop and big data, part 2: execution time on one machine and the history of Hadoop
How long a single machine takes to read and process 1 TB, which shows why distributed processing is needed, followed by how Hadoop grew out of the Nutch web crawler.