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Hadoop is an Apache open-source project that provides software for reliable and scalable distributed computing. The project itself includes a variety of other complementary additions.

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Do I need to learn Hadoop to be a Data Scientist?

An aspiring data scientist here. I don't know anything about Hadoop, but as I have been reading about Data Science and Big Data, I see a lot of talk about Hadoop. Is it absolutely necessary to learn ...
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What are the use cases for Apache Spark vs Hadoop

With Hadoop 2.0 and YARN Hadoop is supposedly no longer tied only map-reduce solutions. With that advancement, what are the use cases for Apache Spark vs Hadoop considering both sit atop of HDFS? I've ...
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What is the difference between Hadoop and noSQL

I heard about many tools / frameworks for helping people to process their data (big data environment). One is called Hadoop and the other is the noSQL concept. What is the difference in point of ...
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Tradeoffs between Storm and Hadoop (MapReduce)

Can someone kindly tell me about the trade-offs involved when choosing between Storm and MapReduce in Hadoop Cluster for data processing? Of course, aside from the obvious one, that Hadoop (processing ...
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Does Amazon RedShift replace Hadoop for ~1XTB data?

There is plenty of hype surrounding Hadoop and its eco-system. However, in practice, where many data sets are in the terabyte range, is it not more reasonable to use Amazon RedShift for querying ...
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What are R's memory constraints?

In reviewing “Applied Predictive Modeling" a reviewer states: One critique I have of statistical learning (SL) pedagogy is the absence of computation performance considerations in the evaluation ...
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Can map-reduce algorithms written for MongoDB be ported to Hadoop later?

In our company, we have a MongoDB database containing a lot of unstructured data, on which we need to run map-reduce algorithms to generate reports and other analyses. We have two approaches to select ...
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Data science and MapReduce programming model of Hadoop

What are the different classes of data science problems that can be solved using mapreduce programming model?
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Good books for Hadoop, Spark, and Spark Streaming [closed]

Can anyone suggest any good books to learn hadoop and map reduce basics? Also something for Spark, and Spark Streaming? Thanks
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Cascaded Error in Apache Storm

Going through the presentation and material of Summingbird by Twitter, one of the reasons that is mentioned for using Storm and Hadoop clusters together in Summingbird is that processing through Storm ...
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Lambda Architecture - How to implement the Merge Layer / Query Layer

I am reading up about lambda architecture. It makes sense. we have queue based data ingestion. we have an in-memory store for data which is very new and we have HDFS for old data. So we have our ...
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Linear Regression in R Mapreduce(RHadoop)

I m new to RHadoop and also to RMR... I had an requirement to write a Mapreduce Job in R Mapreduce. I have Tried writing but While executing this it gives an Error. Tring to read the file from hdfs ...
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Is there a benefit to using hadoop with only one node?

I just started learning about Hadoop. From what I understand its primary strength is its ability to distribute a task across many nodes. Is there any benefit to using Hadoop with only a single node, ...
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Improve k-means accuracy

Our weapons: I am experimenting with k-means and Hadoop, where I am chained to these options for various reasons (e.g. Help me win this war!). The battlefield: I have articles, which belong to c ...
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How to make k-means distributed?

After setting up a 2-noded Hadoop cluster, understanding Hadoop and Python and based on this naive implementation, I ended up with this code: ...
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Processing data stored in Redshift

We're currently using Redshift as our data warehouse, which we're very happy with. However, we now have a requirement to do machine learning against the data in our warehouse. Given the volume of data ...
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Skills that school doesn't teach you

I'll be graduating soon with a master's degree in electrical engineering. I have a lot of experience with the theoretical side of machine learning through courses and research, but all of my ...
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Can all statistical algorithms be parallelized using a Map Reduce framework

Is it correct to say that any statistical learning algorithm (linear/logistic regression, SVM, neural network, random forest) can be implemented inside a Map Reduce framework? Or are there ...
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Storing Sensor Data for Analysis of the Office

I have currently been tasked with designing an application that tracks several different measurements around the office, eg. the temperature, light, presence of people, etc. Having never really worked ...
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Saving Large Spark ML Pipeline to HDFS

I'm having trouble saving a large (relative to spark.rpc.message.maxSize) Spark ML pipeline to HDFS. Specifically, when I try to save the model to HDFS, it gives me an error related to spark's maximum ...
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Can we access HDFS file system and YARN scheduler in Apache Spark?

We can access HDFS file system and YARN scheduler In the Apache-Hadoop. But Spark has a higher level of coding. Is it possible to access HDFS and YARN in Apache-Spark too? Thanks
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Hadoop for grid computing

Background: I run a product that compares sets of data (data matching and data reconciliation). To get the result we need to compare each row in a data set with every N rows on the opposing data set ...
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Is there any point in learning Hadoop in 2018?

I'm a data analyst/scientist working mostly with the Python open source stack i.e. Pandas, scikit-learn, matplotlib, seaborn etc. I want to expand my toolbox and learn a distributed computing ...
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Hive: How to calculate the Kendall coefficient of correlation of a pair of a numeric columns in the group?

In this wiki page there is a function corr() that calculates the Pearson coefficient of correlation, but my question is that: is there any function in Hive that ...
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Pig script code error?

While running the below pig script I am getting an error in line4: If it is GROUP then I am getting error. If I change from 'GROUP' TO 'group' in line4, then the script is running. What is the ...
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How to set up multi cluster spark without hadoop on Google Compute engine

I'm new to apache spark. Is it possible to configure multi cluster spark without hadoop? If so, can you please provide the steps. I would like to create clusters on Google Compute Engine (1-...
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Is our data "Big Data" (Startup)

I worked at a startup/medium sized company and I am concerned that we may be over-engineering one of our products. In essence, we will be consuming real-time coordinates from vehicles and users and ...
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Cloudera QuickStart VM Error [closed]

I have installed cloudera CDH5 Quick start VM on VM player. When I login through HUE in the first page I am the following error “Potential misconfiguration detected. Fix and restart Hue.” How to ...
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What is the main difference between Hadoop and Spark? [closed]

I recently read the following about Hadoop vs. Spark: Insist upon in-memory columnar data querying. This was the killer-feature that let Apache Spark run in seconds the queries that would take Hadoop ...
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BERT in production

I've created a BERT model. What are the ways to do the deployment of this model? Is it possible to use it with Spark, Hadoop or Docker?
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Deploying models on bigdata platforms like Hadoop and Spark

Where exactly bigdata platforms fit in to a data science/ machine learning projects ? Say I have a large dataset for a binary classification problem - cats and dogs. Now I need to create a model for ...
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Hadoop Resource Manager Won't Start [closed]

I am a relatively new user to Hadoop (using version 2.4.1). I installed hadoop on my first node without a hitch, but I can't seem to get the Resource Manager to start on my second node. I cleared up ...
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HBase connector - Thrift or REST

There seem to be at least 2 ways to connect to HBase from external application, with language other then Java (i.e. Python): HBase Thrift API HBase Stargate (REST API) Does anyone know which one ...
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Data produced as an output to Dumbo API of Python not getting distributed to all the nodes of cluster

On the node from which I run Dumbo commands, all the files produced as output are produced on the same node. For example, suppose there is a node having name hvs on which I ran the script: dumbo ...
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java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hadoop/fs/FSDataInputStream

Im traying to integrate Hadoop and R, I was install the pachages rJava and Rhipe in R, I do this steps to start Hadoop and R: -starting Hadoop services., -loading rJava and Rhipe packages by library ...
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Communication between name node, data node and client in hadoop by analysing Packet Capturing [closed]

if I say that in hadoop cluster system... A client has 10GB data to send to name node. After analysing the "packet capturing" actually the name node doesn't divide the data for data node, ...
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How to setup a home-laptop cluster to 'practice' elasticsearch, hadoop, mesos and spark [closed]

I'd like to have elasticsearch, hadoop, mesos and spark on my home laptop (it's an 8GB with an intel i7 CPU) for practicing the setup of such frameworks and eventually to test their functions. I'm ...
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Pig latin code error [duplicate]

While running the below pig script I am getting error in line4: If it is GROUP then I am getting error. If I change from GROUP ...
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How to read contents of a CSV file inside zip file using spark (python) [closed]

I have multiple zip files containing two types of files(A.csv & B.csv) /data/jan.zip --> contains A.csv & B.csv /data/feb.zip --> contains A.csv & B.csv I want to read the contents of ...
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spark item similarity recommendation

I would like to build an recommendation engine using spark's Mlib itemsimilarity as mentioned here LINK But it seems spark do not have this algorithm any more and ...
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Why has Hadoop failed to become popular?

Apache Hadoop was once considered one of the tools you should have as a Data Scientist. Around 2012 to 2014, it gained the popularity steeply among Data Scientists, and seemed to be considered one of ...
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Can Hadoop be beneficial when data is in database tables and not in a file system

I work for a bank. Most of our data is in the form of database tables. Would we benefit by implementing Hadoop? I am of the impression that Hadoop is more for a Distributed File System (unstructured ...
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Differences in scoring from PMML model on different platforms

I've built a toy Random Forest model in R (using the German Credit dataset from the caret ...
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PySpark: java.io.EOFException

System: 1 name node, 4 cores, 16 GB RAM 1 master node, 4 cores, 16 GB RAM 6 data nodes, 4 cores, 16 GB RAM each 6 worker nodes, 4 cores, 16 GB RAM each around 5 Terabytes of storage space The data ...
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does storing file in hdfs parallelize it for Spark?

For Spark's RDD operations, data must be in shape of RDD or be parallelized using: ParallelizedData = sc.parallelize(data) My question is that if I store data in ...
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Ingestion of periodic REST API Calls into Hadoop [closed]

We are planning to use REST API calls to ingest data from an endpoint and store the data to HDFS. The REST calls are done in a periodic fashion (daily or maybe hourly). I've already done Twitter ...
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How many people can use a single Hadoop cluster at one time?

I would like to know how many people can use a single Hadoop cluster at one time? I am asking because I need to figure out whether or not a single 5 or 10 node cluster would be sufficient to host a ...
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Difference Between Hadoop Mapreduce(Java) and RHadoop mapreduce

I understand Hadoop MapReduce and its features but I am confused about R MapReduce. One difference I have read is that R utilizes maximum RAM. So do perform parallel processing integrated R with ...
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Are parquet files compressed? [closed]

Parquet File Format Hadoop. Parquet, an open-source file format for Hadoop. Parquet stores nested data structures in a flat columnar format. Compared to a traditional approach where data is stored in ...
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Accumulators in Spark (PySpark) without global variables?

BACKGROUND Consider the following textbook example which uses accumulators to add vectors. ...
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