What is difference between regular file system and HDFS?

1046

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What is rack-aware replica placement policy?

1023

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Are Namenode and job tracker on the same host?

1454

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What is column families? What happens if you alter the block size of ColumnFamily on an already populated database?

1099

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What is HDFS Federation?

974

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What are watches?

1028

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Explain the Job OutputFormat?

957

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Virtual Box & Ubuntu Installation?

986

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What is the difference between HDFS and NAS ?

1368

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How Mapper is instantiated in a running job?

988

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Where do you specify the Mapper Implementation?

991

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What is the meaning of speculative execution in Hadoop? Why is it important?

1054

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What is the InputFormat ?

1005

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Command to format the NameNode?

929

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Who is a 'user' in HDFS?

886

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