Tag Archives: Hadoop

Building HDP 2.6 on AWS, Part 3: the worker nodes

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

This is part 3 in a series on how to build a Hortonworks Data Platform 2.6 cluster on AWS. By now we have an edge node to run Ambari Server, three master nodes for Hadoop name nodes and such. Now … Continue reading →

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Hadoop in a Hurry – Security

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

When talking about Hadoop security there are so many products and features. What do all of them do? This video gives a high over overview.

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Tutorial: Let’s throw some asteroids in Apache Hive

Posted on November 14, 2017 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

This is a tutorial on how to import data (with fixed lenght) in Apache Hive (in Hortonworks Data Platform 2.6.1). The idea is that any non-Hive, non-Hadoop savvy people can follow along, so let me know if I succeeded (make … Continue reading →

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Hadoop High Availability In A Hurry – Part 2: YARN

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

If you don’t know a lot about YARN and why it’s called a data operating system, you’re in luck. I found it necessary to explain how YARN works before I could explain the solutions for high availability. At first YARN … Continue reading →

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Hadoop High Availability In A Hurry – Part 1: HDFS

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

I’ve been studying for a couple of hours how Hadoop high availability works, for the HDPCA exam. And now I’ve condensed that knowledge to a video on HDFS HA in just under 9 minutes. Enjoy!

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Building HDP 2.6 on AWS, Part 2: the master nodes

Posted on May 26, 2017 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

This is part 2 in a series on how to build a Hortonworks Data Platform 2.6 cluster on AWS. In part 1 we created an edge node where we will later install Ambari Server. The next step is creating the … Continue reading →

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Building HDP 2.6 on AWS, Part 1: the edge node

Posted on May 15, 2017 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

Installing Hortonworks Data Platform 2.6 on Amazon Web Services (Amazon’s cloud platform), how hard could it be? It’s click, click, next, next, confirm, right? Well-lll, not quite. Especially if HDP or AWS is new to you. There are many steps … Continue reading →

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Dataworks Summit München 2017 – day two

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

Day two started with more keynotes. Ross Porter of Dell EMC talked about the ingredients of a successful analytics project. Carlo Vaiti of HP Enterprise had an interesting talk about trends in big data, but I would advise him to … Continue reading →

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Dataworks Summit München 2017 – day one

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

Just left the beergarten party at Dataworks Summit 2017 in München. Okay, let’s see how well I blog after three of these large beers. Luckily I took notes before. Tell me when I start to become incoherent. So actually for … Continue reading →

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