Hadoop Cluster and HDFS Interview Questions
1) What do the four V’s of Big Data denote? a) Volume –Scale of data b) Velocity –Analysis of streaming data c) Variety – Different forms of data d) Veracity –Uncertainty of data 2) On what concept the Hadoop framework works? - Hadoop Framework works on the following two core components 1) HDFS:(Storage Unit) - Hadoop Distributed File System is the java based file system for scalable and reliable storage of large datasets. - Data in HDFS is stored in the form of blocks and it operates on the Master Slave Architecture. 2) MapReduce:(Processing and Cluster Management Unit) - This is a java based programming paradigm of Hadoop framework that provides scalability across various Hadoop clusters. - MapReduce distributes the workload into various tasks that can run in parallel. Hadoop jobs perform 2 separate tasks- job. - MAP: -The map job breaks down the data sets into key-value pairs or tuples. - Reduce: - The reduce job then takes the output of th...