How to get started with Hadoop

Question

I am working as a Application developer. I have experience in Web technologies like JavaScript , Jquery , Php , HTML. Nowadays I heard lot about Hadoop so I’m interested in learning about mapreduce and hadoop. But I dont have any prior programming knowledge in any object oriented languages like Java or C++ , how should I get started with mapreduce and hadoop.

I would like you people to suggest me some good resources to learn mapreduce and hadoop.

Answer 1

Well, hadoop is actually a framework that has lots of component. In general, python or Java us preferred for writing MapReduce program. So, you need get familarize with java or python at first.

Next, you need to setup hadoop in your local pc. For this you can download the cloudera quickstart VM which has all the services already installed in it. Here is the link to download the quickstart VM:
https://www.cloudera.com/downloads/quickstart_vms/5-13.html

Finally, you need to understand the overall architecture of Hadoop and what are different components in it. For this you will find various resources on the internet or what you can do is you can refer to O'reilly's book called as Hadoop - The Definitive Guide. To be honest it is a the bible for hadoop. You will find very good explanation and good examples in the book. All you have to do is follow along.