Hadoop : What is it and is it a Rocket Science to learn?

The turbulence that Big Data is causing today in the IT sea is enormous. With this new era of Big Data the IT giants have really understood that the power of Big Data is really BIG if we can harness it.

The nature of Big data

With the complexity that is lying around Big Data , comes the savoir Hadoop.

What is Hadoop ? Apache Hadoop is an open source Java framework for processing and querying vast amounts of data . I do agree that Hadoop is little bit complex to learn for a beginner but not really a rocket science to learn and practice some beginner tasks.

OK this looks interesting but from Where do i learn about Hadoop ? : You can entirely learn it by yourself specially with the world wide web for our help.

Source 1 : EMC Corporation Big ideas Video Playlist : Yes This may seem a bit naive and simple but they have made an amazing video series to understand and learn about what is Big Data and What is Hadoop. In fact its one of the fastest way to gain an overview of hadoop.

Link : http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD298CBF8D0908E4C

Source 2: Join Big data University : Yes you heard it right. Big data university has a bunch of amazing courses on Hadoop technology. The beginners entry point will be Hadoop fundamentals course. This course will teach you all the basics of Hadoop. Based on my personal experience it is a nice way to dig a bit deeper into Hadoop.

Link : http://bigdatauniversity.com/courses/

Source 3:  Hadoop in practice:  I really have not gone much deeper into this book , but yes the reviews tell it is good book to study and learn about Hadoop.

Link : http://www.amazon.com/Hadoop-Practice-Alex-Holmes/dp/1617290238

Source 4: Hadoop Tutorial from YDN and IBM Developer Works : The Yahoo developer networks and IBM developer works have also a bunch of amazing tutorials on Hadoop. IBM developerWorks have a bit advanced tutorial on other technologies related with hadoop like Hive,Pig Flume etc.

Link :  Yahoo YDN Hadoop Tutorial : http://developer.yahoo.com/hadoop/tutorial/module1.html

Link : IBM developerWorks : http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-1209hadoopbigdata/

Source 5: Apache Hadoop wiki and official web Page : Always if you want to dig more you can refer to Apache Hadoop official wiki.

Link : http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/

Ok now I have learnt about the basics now what ? Now time to see it action. The biggest hurdle that i faced is setting up an single node cluster on Hadoop and how to configure it to learn. I will post about it soon.

Meanwhile here is my presentation on Big Data and Hadoop which will also serve as an insight .

So Enjoy and happy Learning ! 😀

Courtesy : EMC Corporation Big Ideas,IBM developerWorks, Yahoo YDN, Apache Hadoop.