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Hadoop for beginners

I just completed by hadoop fundamentals course from Udemy.com . The videos were very well organized so that you will get the glance of what is this world of big data and how hadoop framework can play a major role is processing this big data. The course was insisting in downloading hortonworks hadoop development sandbox and working with it. Hortonworks are providing the hadoop environment setup to download and we can load it in a virtual machine. I have downloaded the virtual box sandbox file.

The course gave a string insight on hadoop architecture and buzz words around it. It gave a in depth idea of hive and pig tools and how they play the key role in storing and processing data in the framework.

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