Big Data Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

Can we use windows for hadoop?

232

What are the hadoop configuration files at present?

243

Can we create a hadoop cluster from scratch?

241

What happens if you get a ‘connection refused java exception’ when you type hadoop fsck /?

243

In which directory hadoop is installed?

231

Does hadoop follows the unix pattern?

223

What is the hadoop-core configuration?

260

What is bucketing ?

397

Can we load data into a view?

407

Difference between hive and impala?

436

What are the types of hive ddl commands?

407

How can you stop a partition form being queried?

436

What is the default location where hive stores table data?

407

What are types of hive built-in functions?

476

Why do we need hive?

412


Un-Answered Questions { Big Data }

Name some independent extensions that contribute to the Ambari codebase?

50


Name some companies that use Hadoop?

677


Is there any benefit of learning mapreduce if spark is better than mapreduce?

1719


Define Partition and Partitioner in Apache Spark?

214


Can you define data lake?

211






What are the key differences between cassandra and traditional rdbms?

65


What do you understand by Filters in HBase?

105


what is the meaning of broker in Kafka?

295


How does spark run hadoop?

190


What is the purpose of context object?

229


Is it possible to provide multiple input to Hadoop? If yes then how can you give multiple directories as input to the Hadoop job?

251


What is spark used for?

172


When to use hadoop, hbase, hive and pig?

308


Where is apache spark used?

185


How data or file is written into Hadoop HDFS?

22