NFT: any hadoop users

yep, I'm not on the tech data team but we used Hadoop here (HDFS, Hadoop, Hive). Six server cluster and Cloudera managed services. i can ask our data science guys where they got started and good resources.

That said, if I were you, I would really start looking at Google Cloud, Big Query (Big Table) and perhaps even Google App Engine. That seems to be the way the wind is blowing. You may want to use Hadoop for some aggregation but BQ is damn powerful and we are aggressively pursuing where that fits.

Lots of companies in our portfolio are moving in that direction. The ability to do some powerful data processing and querying on tons of data at BQ is really looking like a game changer.

As with anything, it really depends on what you need/want to do. Same query on a ton of data with say daily frequency, Hadoop could be better.

just noticed your vertical, if you are staying in financial services, the google stuff may not be viable for data security and compliance.

I may be looking to change verticals if you know of anything.

This was a pet project internally to learn more about the integrated hadoop stack with all of the other components, but my internal plans may be changing. Really crappy day for our group.

Bad timing I guess.

hopefully some of what I posted helps.

What is your background in?

Big Data University has multiple courses in Hadoop. Although they don't say so, the site seems to be affiliated with IBM and concentrates on IBM's implementation of hadoop, Big Insights. As far as I can tell, this site's resources are all free.

I you want more personal attention and want to spend some money take a look at Cloudera.com . Udacity.com also offers a hadoop course, sponsored by Cloudera.
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