Welcome to Big Data !

Big Data - that means challenges arising to many IT departments of all kinds of industry enterprises.
Thinking of companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter and so on is just the beginning. More and more companies use more and more systems, that emit data constantly - and constantly growing. Be it through the use of mobile devices, the direct integration with customers and users or the systems they use and need to monitor.

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This wiki shall be a collection of information all around Big Data. It will explain methodologies and tools, use cases and success stories.

This wiki will have to develop its structure by time, as content grows. At the moment it is roughly organized.

• What does "Big Data" mean?
• HDFS
• Map Reduce
• Hadoop
• Hive

Video explaining Hadoop

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