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Where do I begin Hadoop on Windows?
My environment: Windows 8*Step 1: Download and install VM Player 5.1Step 2:Download and install HortonWorks sandbox. It is pre-configured and fasted way to get on to Hadoop. Cloudera has a similar one...
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Installation - Microsoft HDInsight Server (Preview Ed.)
In case you don’t want to go VM route and rather prefer local environment, you may download and install Microsoft’s HDInsight from here.You would download and install Web Platform Installer 4.5. It...
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Post installation - Little bit more on HDInsight
So we have installed HDInsight server. So, I went ahead and downloaded HDInsight using Microsoft Web Platform Installer. I am using Windows 8 Enterprise. I don’t think anything would be different on...
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Set up Hadoop programming environment in C#/Visual Studio 2012
After getting initial understanding of Hadoop, I am ready to deep dive into HDInsight, Microsoft’s platform built on top of Hadoop. Since I come from C# programming background, I wanted to do something...
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Our first Map Reduce Program in C#
As my first .net/C# program, I am going to follow the tutorial written as part of HDInsight server installation. The diagram below nicely depicts our approach. I really liked the diagram “Visual...
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Install MongoDB on Windows 8
Before we start building an MVC4 application with MongoDB as backend, lets install MongoDB. The help file does a pretty good job of outlining details on installation. I choose to install it as a...
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Introducing Pig
Last week, I ordered Programming Pig from Amazon and started learning. I figured out that it is much easier to do run command lines thank writing full-fledged MapReduce programs when I am feeling...
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In next weeks, I will be reading this new book, I bought from Amazon “Hadoop: The Definite Guide”. By no means I take any credit for the content. I hope this blog/notes saves you from writing your own...
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Installing Hadoop 2.2 (Single Node) on Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtual Machine
Last evening, I spent some time on reading few materials on Hadoop. I know, it has been a long time since I could some more work on Hadoop. In the past, I have taken HDInsight Preview edition from...
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