History of Hadoop
History of Hadoop had started in the year 2002 with the project Apache Nutch. Hadoop was created by Doug Cutting, the creator of Apache Lucene, the widely used text search library.
Origin of the Name Hadoop
Origin of the Name Hadoop is not from an acronym and the name Hadoop doesn’t have any specific meaning too. It’s just a made up name! Hadoop Project's creator, Doug Cutting, explains how the name came in to existing.
How MapReduce is different from Grid Computing and High Performance Computing?
Grid computing and High Performance Computing have been doing large scale batch processing from years, using such Application Program Interfaces (API) and as Message Passing Interface (MPS).
How MapReduce is different from Volunteer Computing (SETI@home, Folding@home, GIMPS)?
Volunteer Computing can be also termed as Distributive Computing. There are some of the volunteer computing projects such as SETI@home, Folding@home etc, GIMPS., in the world.
Why MapReduce is needed instead of traditional Databases?
Why can't we use databases with lots of disks to do large-scale batch analysis? Why MapReduce is needed? MapReduce has its own advantages over traditional databases(especially our relational databases).
Data Storage and Analysis Problems Faced in Digital Universe
Data Storage and Analysis of the stored data is currently the problem in the Digital Universe. When I am studying 7th standard, that is in 2003 there used to be Floppy Disks in use!
Data! How it is important in this Digital Universe
We live in the Date Age. It is very hard to measure the total volume of the data that is stored electronically in the universe. The estimated size of the data of Digital Universe in 2006 is 0.18 zettabytes, in 2011 it increased to 1.8 zettabytes, in 2013 it increased.
Advantages of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
SVG is trending technology in the internet world. There are many advantages of SVG. In crisp, SVG which stands for [Scalable Vector Graphics][1] is used to define vector-based graphics for the Web.
Infinitely Scalable SVG – Scalable Vector Graphics
Scalable Vector Graphics, widely known as SVG is becoming popular now a days. Scalable Vector Graphics is an open standard that was developed by [World Wide Web Consortium(W3C)][1] in 1999.
Inline SVG in WordPress Post
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a trending technology. As SVG is infinitely scalable graphics, it is widely used. There is a problem in using these graphics inside the a WordPress post.