This tutorial walks you through an end-to-end scenario for developing a word-counting Hadoop MapReduce job in Java by using Apache Maven. The tutorial also shows how to test the application on the ...

Introduction Ever wanted to code your own MapReduce application using Java and run it on Hortonworks Sandbox? This tutorial helps you to do just that :) This tutorial takes up a sample scenario - Poll ...

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 ...

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, ...

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This assignment should be done in Java. The purpose of this assignment is to gain experience with MapReduce programming. MapReduce is used by Google for much of their processing of large data sets ...

Abstract: Big Data by virtue of its features in the V's and C's space calls for a processing methodology that is quite different form the process prevalent with traditional system of data processing.

To help illustrate the MapReduce programming model, consider the problem of counting the number of occurrences of each word in a large collection of documents. The user would write code like the ...