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1.What is BIG DATA?

Ans: Big Data is nothing but an assortment of such a huge and complex data that it becomes very tedious to capture, store, process, retrieve and analyze it with the help of on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing techniques.

2. Can you give some examples of Big Data?

Ans: There are many real life examples of Big Data! Facebook is generating 500+ terabytes of data per day, NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) generates about 1 terabyte of new trade data per day, a jet airline collects 10 terabytes of censor data for every 30 minutes of flying time. All these are day to day examples of Big Data!

3. Can you give a detailed overview about the Big Data being generated by Facebook?
Ans: As of December 31, 2012, there are 1.06 billion monthly active users on Facebook and 680 million mobile users. On an average, 3.2 billion likes and comments are posted every day on Facebook. 72% of web audience is on Facebook. And why not! There are so many activities going on facebook from wall posts, sharing images, videos, writing comments and liking posts, etc. In fact, Facebook started using Hadoop in mid-2009 and was one of the initial users of Hadoop.

4. According to IBM, what are the three characteristics of Big Data?

Ans: According to IBM, the three characteristics of Big Data are: Volume: Facebook generating 500+ terabytes of data per day. Velocity: Analyzing 2 million records each day to identify the reason for losses. Variety: images, audio, video, sensor data, log files, etc.

5. How Big is Big Data?

Ans: With time, data volume is growing exponentially. Earlier we used to talk about Megabytes or Gigabytes. But time has arrived when we talk about data volume in terms of terabytes, petabytes and also zettabytes! Global data volume was around 1.8ZB in 2011 and is expected to be 7.9ZB in 2015. It is also known that the global information doubles in every two years!

6. How analysis of Big Data is useful for organizations?

Ans: Effective analysis of Big Data provides a lot of business advantage as organizations will learn which areas to focus on and which areas are less important. Big data analysis provides some early key indicators that can prevent the company from a huge loss or help in grasping a great opportunity with open hands! A precise analysis of Big Data helps in decision making! For instance, nowadays people rely so much on Facebook and Twitter before buying any product or service. All thanks to the Big Data explosion.

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7. Who are Data Scientists?

Ans: Data scientists are soon replacing business analysts or data analysts. Data scientists are experts who find solutions to analyze data. Just as web analysis, we have data scientists who have good business insight as to how to handle a business challenge. Sharp data scientists are not only involved in dealing business problems, but also choosing the relevant issues that can bring value-addition to the organization.

8. What is Hadoop?
Ans. Hadoop is a framework that allows for distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of commodity computers using a simple programming model.

9. Why the name Hadoop?

Ans. Hadoop doesnt have any expanding version like oops. The charming yellow elephant you see is basically named after Dougs sons toy elephant!

10. Why do we need Hadoop?

Ans. Everyday a large amount of unstructured data is getting dumped into our machines. The major challenge is not to store large data sets in our systems but to retrieve and analyze the big data in the organizations, that too data present in different machines at different locations. In this situation a necessity for Hadoop arises. Hadoop has the ability to analyze the data present in different machines at different locations very quickly and in a very cost effective way. It uses the concept of MapReduce which enables it to divide the query into small parts and process them in parallel. This is also known as parallel computing.

11. What are some of the characteristics of Hadoop framework?

Ans. Hadoop framework is written in Java. It is designed to solve problems that involve analyzing large data (e.g. petabytes). The programming model is based on Googles MapReduce. The infrastructure is based on Googles Big Data and Distributed File System. Hadoop handles large files/data throughput and supports data intensive distributed applications. Hadoop is scalable as more nodes can be easily added to it.

12. Give a brief overview of Hadoop history.

Ans. In 2002, Doug Cutting created an open source, web crawler project. In 2004, Google published MapReduce, GFS papers. In 2006, Doug Cutting developed the open source, Mapreduce and HDFS project. In 2008, Yahoo ran 4,000 node Hadoop cluster and Hadoop won terabyte sort benchmark. In 2009, Facebook launched SQL support for Hadoop.

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13. Give examples of some companies that are using Hadoop structure?
Ans. A lot of companies are using the Hadoop structure such as Cloudera, EMC, MapR, Hortonworks, Amazon, Facebook, eBay, Twitter, Google and so on.

14. What is the basic difference between traditional RDBMS and Hadoop?
Ans. Traditional RDBMS is used for transactional systems to report and archive the data, whereas Hadoop is an approach to store huge amount of data in the distributed file system and process it. RDBMS will be useful when you want to seek one record from Big data, whereas, Hadoop will be useful when you want Big data in one shot and perform analysis on that later.

15. What is structured and unstructured data?

Ans. Structured data is the data that is easily identifiable as it is organized in a structure. The most common form of structured data is a database where specific information is stored in tables, that is, rows and columns. Unstructured data refers to any data that cannot be identified easily. It could be in the form of images, videos, documents, email, logs and random text. It is not in the form of rows and columns.

16. What are the core components of Hadoop?

Ans. Core components of Hadoop are HDFS and Map Reduce. HDFS is basically used to store large data sets and Map Reduce is used to process such large data sets.

17.What is HDFS?
Ans. HDFS is a file system designed for storing very large files with streaming data access patterns, running clusters on commodity hardware.

18.What are the key features of HDFS?

Ans. HDFS is highly fault-tolerant, with high throughput, suitable for applications with large data sets, streaming access to file system data and can be built out of commodity hardware.

19. What is Fault Tolerance?

Ans: Suppose you have a file stored in a system, and due to some technical problem that file gets destroyed. Then there is no chance of getting the data back present in that file. To avoid such situations, Hadoop has introduced the feature of fault tolerance in HDFS. In Hadoop, when we

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store a file, it automatically gets replicated at two other locations also. So even if one or two of the systems collapse, the file is still available on the third system.

20.What is the difference between a Hadoop database and Relational Database?

Ans: Hadoop is not a database, it is an architecture with a filesystem called HDFS. The data is stored in HDFS which does not have any predefined containers. Relational database stores data in predefined containers.

21.What is MAP REDUCE?

Ans: Map Reduce is a set of programs used to access and manipulate large data sets over a Hadoop cluster.

22.What is the InputSplit in map reduce software?

Ans: An inputsplit is the slice of data to be processed by a single Mapper. It generally is of the block size which is stored on the datanode.

23.what is meaning Replication factor?

Ans. Replication factor defines the number of times a given data block is stored in the cluster. The default replication factor is 3. This also means that you need to have 3times the amount of storage needed to store the data. Each file is split into data blocks and spread across the cluster.

24.what is the default replication factor in HDFS?

Ans. The default hadoop comes with 3 replication factor. You can set the replication level individually for each file in HDFS. In addition to fault tolerance having replicas allow jobs that consume the same data to be run in parallel. Also if there are replicas of the data hadoop can attempt to run multiple copies of the same task and take which ever finishes first. This is useful if for some reason a box is being slow. Most Hadoop administrators set the default replication factor for their files to be three. The main assumption here is that if you keep three copies of the data, your data is safe. this to be true in the big clusters that we manage and operate. In addition to fault tolerance having replicas allow jobs that consume the same data to be run in parallel. Also if there are replicas of the data hadoop can attempt to run multiple copies of the same task and take which ever finishes first. This is useful if for some reason a box is being slow.

25. what is the typical block size of an HDFS block?

Ans: Default blocksize is 64mb. But 128mb is typical.

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26. How does master slave architecture in the Hadoop?

Ans: Totally 5 daemons run in Hadoop Master-slave architecture . On Master Node : Name Node and Job Tracker and Secondary name node On Slave : Data Node and Task Tracker But its recommended to run Secondary name node in a separate machine which have Master node capacity.

27. What is compute and Storage nodes?

Ans: I do define Hadoop into 2 ways : Distributed Processing : Map Reduce Distributed Storage : HDFS Name Node holds Meta info and Data holds exact data and its MR program.

28. Explain how input and output data format of the Hadoop framework?
Ans: Fileinputformat, textinputformat, keyvaluetextinputformat, sequencefileinputformat, sequencefileasinputtextformat, wholefileformat are file formats in hadoop framework

29. How can we control particular key should go in a specific reducer?

Ans. By using a custom partitioner.

30.What is the Reducer used for?

Ans. Reducer is used to combine the multiple outputs of mapper to one.

31. What are the primary phases of the Reducer?

Ans: Reducer has 3 primary phases: shuffle, sort and reduce.

32.What happens if number of reducers are 0?

Ans: It is legal to set the number of reduce-tasks to zero if no reduction is desired. In this case the outputs of the map-tasks go directly to the FileSystem, into the output path set by setOutputPath(Path). The framework does not sort the map-outputs before writing them out to the FileSystem.

33.How many instances of JobTracker can run on a HadoopCluser?

Ans: One. There can only be one JobTracker in the cluster. This can be run on the same machine running the NameNode.

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34. How NameNode Handles data node failures?

Ans: Through checksums. every data has a record followed by a checksum. if checksum doesnot match with the original then it reports an data corrupted error.

35. Can I set the number of reducers to zero?

Ans. can be given as zero. So, the mapper output is anfinalised output and stores in HDFS.

36. What is a SequenceFile in Hadoop?

Ans: A. Sequence File contains a binary encoding ofan arbitrary number of homogeneous writable objects. B. ASequenceFilecontains a binary encoding of an arbitrary number of heterogeneous writable objects.
C. ASequenceFilecontains a binary encoding of an arbitrary number of WritableComparable objects, in sorted order. D. ASequenceFilecontains a binary encoding of an arbitrary number key-value pairs. Each key must be the same type. Each value must be sametype.

37. How many states does Writable interface defines ___ in Hadoop?
Ans. Two

38. What are sequence files and why are they important in Hadoop?
Ans: Sequence files are binary format files that are compressed and are splitable. They are often used in high-performance map-reduce jobs

39. What are map files and why are they important in Hadoop?
Ans: Map files are sorted sequence files that also have an index. The index allows fast data look up.

40.How can you use binary data in MapReduce in Hadoop?

Ans. Binary data can be used directly by a map-reduce job. Often binary data is added to a sequence file.

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41. What is map side join in Hadoop?

Ans. Map-side join is done in the map phase and done in memory

42.What is reduce side join in Hadoop?

Ans: Reduce-side join is a technique for merging data from different sources based on a specific key. There are no memory restrictions

43.How can you disable the reduce step in Hadoop?

Ans : A developer can always set the number of the reducers to zero. That will completely disable the reduce step.

44.Why would a developer create a map-reduce without the reduce step Hadoop?
Ans: There is a CPU intensive step that occurs between the map and reduce steps. Disabling the reduce step speeds up data processing.

45. What is the default input format in Hadoop?

Ans: The default input format is TextInputFormat with byte offset as a key and entire line as a value.

46. How can you overwrite the default input format in Hadoop?
Ans: In order to overwrite default input format, a developer has to set new input format on job config before submitting the job to a cluster.

47. Is there a map input format in Hadoop?

Ans: No, but sequence file input format can read map files.

48.What happens if mapper output does not match reducer input in Hadoop?
Ans: A real-time exception will be thrown and map-reduce job will fail.

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49. Can you provide multiple input paths to a map-reduce jobs Hadoop?
Ans: Yes, developers can add any number of input paths.

50. Since the data is replicated thrice in HDFS, does it mean that any calculation done on one node will also be replicated on the other two?
Ans: Since there are 3 nodes, when we send the MapReduce programs, calculations will be done only on the original data. The master node will know which node exactly has that particular data. In case, if one of the nodes is not responding, it is assumed to be failed. Only then, the required calculation will be done on the second replica.