Hadoop Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What is IdentityMapper?

641

Why do we use Hadoop?

634

what is the typical block size of an HDFS block?

646

What is Hadoop Custom partitioner ?

725

What is the default block size in Hadoop 1 and in Hadoop 2? Can it be changed?

947

What stored in HDFS?

617

What is crontab? Explain with suitable example?

673

What is the difference between Hadoop and Traditional RDBMS?

669

What is Partioner in hadoop? Where does it run

624

Does Hadoop requires RAID?

651

What is the purpose of DataNode block scanner?

663

What is a checkpoint?

665

Did you ever ran into a lop sided job that resulted in out of memory error

930

What is the communication channel between client and namenode/datanode?

1420

What are the different operational commands in HBase at record level and table level?

309


Un-Answered Questions { Hadoop }

What are possible types of Channel Selectors?

76


Define the purpose of the partition function in mapreduce framework

410


How to change the column data type in hive? Explain rlike in hive.

426


Which among the two is preferable for the project- Hadoop MapReduce or Apache Spark?

349


how to share the metastore within multiple users?

623






How to create a custom key and custom value in MapReduce Job?

400


Explain what is sequencefileinputformat?

237


What is spark repartition?

197


Explain the concept of Tunable Consistency in Cassandra?

180


What happens when you issue a delete command in hbase?

125


What is Cassandra Query Language?

64


What is pair rdd?

208


How does Hadoop Classpath plays a vital role in stopping or starting in Hadoop daemons?

461


What is a MapReduce Combiner?

510


What is meant by streaming access?

282