I was trying to write a map/reduce job for Hadoop using Visual Studio 2012 in a HDP for Window environment. In search…

Last week I was busy for some time installing Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows and below were my notes as I proceeded.…

Today, Hadoop has been synonymous with big data as it has been the platform of choice for big data processing.Apache™ Hadoop® is an open…

While Hadoop 1.0 (the current distributions) is driving the world with increasing speed, Hadoop 2.0 has already made debut with…

Last week I was importing a bunch of CSV files to database using a SSIS package. What I found was…

Yesterday, I was discussing with my younger brother who works as a petrophysicist. He suddenly paused me, "Hey, wait. I…

Hadoop mostly deals with unstructured data. And all your structured data lives in relational databases. After you made necessary processing…