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Top 6 Microsoft HDFS Interview Questions

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Microsoft Azure HDInsight(or Microsoft HDFS) is a cloud-based Hadoop Distributed File System version. A distributed file system runs on commodity hardware and manages massive data collections. It is a fully managed cloud-based environment for analyzing and processing enormous volumes of data.

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Hadoop vs Spark: Main Big Data Tools Explained

AltexSoft

Hadoop and Spark are the two most popular platforms for Big Data processing. They both enable you to deal with huge collections of data no matter its format — from Excel tables to user feedback on websites to images and video files. What are its limitations and how do the Hadoop ecosystem address them? scalability.

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Recap of Hadoop News for January 2017

ProjectPro

News on Hadoop-January 2017 Big Data In Gambling: How A 360-Degree View Of Customers Helps Spot Gambling Addiction. The largest gaming agency in Finland, Veikkaus is using big data to build a 360 degree picture of its customers. Source : [link] How Hadoop helps Experian crunch credit reports. Forbes.com, January 5, 2017.

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Data Collection for Machine Learning: Steps, Methods, and Best Practices

AltexSoft

While today’s world abounds with data, gathering valuable information presents a lot of organizational and technical challenges, which we are going to address in this article. We’ll particularly explore data collection approaches and tools for analytics and machine learning projects. What is data collection?

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Unlock Answers to the Top Questions- What is Big Data and what is Hadoop?

ProjectPro

Big data and hadoop are catch-phrases these days in the tech media for describing the storage and processing of huge amounts of data. Over the years, big data has been defined in various ways and there is lots of confusion surrounding the terms big data and hadoop. What is Big Data according to IBM?

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SAP Hadoop Bringing Unique Big Data Solutions

ProjectPro

SAP is all set to ensure that big data market knows its hip to the trend with its new announcement at a conference in San Francisco that it will embrace Hadoop. What follows is an elaborate explanation on how SAP and Hadoop together can bring in novel big data solutions to the enterprise.

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Recap of Hadoop News for September 2018

ProjectPro

With market leaders like Microsoft and SAP expanding their horizons at the end user industry, HaaS is likely to witness rapid growth in the next 7 years.Organizations like Commerzbank have already launched new platforms based on HaaS solutions which demonstrate that HaaS is a promising solution for building and managing big data clusters.

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