Tag Archives: HDP Sandbox

Recovering your HDP 2.6.1 Sandbox on VirtualBox after a restart

Posted on November 17, 2017 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

If you’ve worked with the Hortonworks Data Platform 2.x sandbox of later versions in VirtualBox and made it shutdown rather vigorously, you might have noticed that you won’t get past this startup screen when you try to start it up … Continue reading →

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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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Quickly start of the Nifi crash course

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

As I said last in my last blogpost, I have followed the Apache NiFi crash course that Hortonworks provides. Now the tutorial describes several different scenarios and options and you have to read through that to find which you want. … Continue reading →

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My first experiences with Apache NiFi

Posted on May 5, 2017 by Marcel-Jan Krijgsman

There are a lot of data-related Apache products out there and it’s hard to keep up with all of them. There are several products to stream or flow data (what’s the difference?). Like Kafka, Storm, Flink and NiFi. Yes, all … Continue reading →

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