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Big Data, Hadoop on Azure and the elephant in the room
Seriously. There’s an elephant in the room, so I’ve no choice but to talk about it. I’m new to Big Data and newer to Hadoop on Azure, so this post (and future ones as well) will serve as an...
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Hadoop on Azure and importing data from the Windows Azure Marketplace
In a previous post I briefly introduced Hadoop and described a brief overview of its components. In this post I’ll put my money where my mouth is and actually do stuff with Hadoop on Azure. Again,...
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Developing Big Data Solutions on Windows Azure, the blind and the elephant
What is a Big Data solution to you? Whatever you are thinking of, I cannot think of a better example than the story of the blind and the elephant. “I’m a dev, It’s about writing some Map/Reduce...
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Introduction to HCatalog, Pig scripts and heavy burdens
As an eager developer craving for Big Data knowledge, you’ve probably come across many tutorials that explain how to create a simple hive query or pig script, I have. Sounds simple enough, right? Now...
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The elephant, the cloud and the cmdlet
The Hadoop SDK for .NET is evolving rapidly. I first checked it out a few months ago and the progress since then has been amazing. It now contains several client libraries (WebHDFS, WebHCat (aka...
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