In this video blog we will be discussing about the era before Hadoop and the factors which led to the creation of Hadoop Framework. Doug Cutting and Mike Cafarella, the founders of Hadoop, were inspired by Google’s GFS and MapReduce architecture. Google introduced GFS (Google File System) system for...
In this video tutorial, We will be discussing about the need for Hadoop and we also will be discussing how Horizontal Scaling architecture is better compared to Vertical scaling and Traditional distributed architecture to store and process the Big Data . If Big Data is implemented in traditional distributed architecture...

DNS stands for Domain Name System (or Service or Server). It translates domain names into IP addresses. Generally, alphabetic domains are easier to remember, however, the Internet Service is based on IP addresses. So, every time we use domain name it gets translated to IP address. For example, www.acadgild.com might...

This blog gives you information about Rack Awareness in Apache Hadoop. HDFS block placement uses rack awareness for fault tolerance by placing one block replica on a different rack. This ensures data availability during network switch failure or a partition within the cluster. Rack awareness is very helpful in...