MicroNugget: What is Hadoop?

In this video, Garth Schulte covers how to work with the volume, velocity, and variety of big data using Hadoop. Hadoop has become very popular over the last few years, and the number of its applications have exploded. Garth examines some of the challenges Hadoop solves as well as the technology stack around it.

To really understand Hadoop, you need to wrap your mind around the problem that Hadoop solves. Big data is composed of terabytes and petabytes of data, and big tech companies like Facebook, eBay, Amazon, Twitter, and Google needed to have a way to make sense of this tremendous amount of data in an efficient, timely manner.

Our personal data footprints are growing exponentially, requiring these companies to grapple with three essential elements: the volume, velocity, and the variety of data.

This information comes in quite a few different formats, so how we handle all of that data coming from multiple sources became problematic. Hadoop was created to navigate this quagmire effectively.

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[YoItsAero]

Wow, thank you so much. More big data videos please. I am trying to integrate security with big data, it's all so new to me.

[srirambalachander]

Nice and crisp video. Thanks do post more about Hadoop with examples

[megapwn]

Best explanation video I've seen, well done!

[swaroopakkineni]

Thanks for the posting this video and the MapReduce video. Really helped to reinforce what I learned in class. Any chance you could create an HDFS video?

[ayoubfakir]

Great, thanks a lot for this micro nugget!

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[proxylady]

A Sleuth of bears, a Flock of seagulls - rather, a Colony - though it doesn't jive well as an eighties new-wave band, a Murder of crows, and a Gaggle of high end machines! Not a goose dropping in sight. :)
Thanks Garth! You are a Parliament of hoots on Hadoop!