Apache Hadoop

Technology Platform behind Aadhaar card implementation

We are almost familiar with Aadhaar card which had been rolled out as a first initiative in 2003. It's a 12-digit unique identification number issued by the Indian government to every individual resident of India and that can be used to access a variety of services and benefits. Hadoop is an open-source big data processing framework, that has been customized excessively by the company named MapR to boost performance.The aadhaar card project has been developed using MapR's customized Hadoop and...

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Mainframe Applications slowly migrating to Hadoop

The giant organizations across the globe are using legacy mainframe systems due to it's scalability, security and reliability of machine's processing capacity subjected to heavy and large workloads. Of course, these infrastructures desire huge hardware, software and processing capacity. As the technology advancing very rapidly, scarcity of mainframe technicians, developers etc are increasing and it has become a major challenge for those organizations to continue their operations. The maintenance/replacement of these hardware are also another threat due to low...

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Establishment of Data Lake specific to multi-channel e-commerce application to understand customer’s buying pattern

Post order fulfillment data is becoming a very important asset of e-commerce vendors to understand complete buying pattern of customers. Especially for the e-commerce vendors who sells multiple products starting from electronics to apparels. Extraction and transformation are time-consuming operations when partially structured data starts moving from the various sources and finally land into the relational data warehouse.  Data extracted from the social media are semi-structured (JSON or XML).  As an example, Facebook provides information in JSON format through Graph API and same...

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Technical Capabilities

Future of Big Data Analysis Using Hadoop

Even though medical sciences are capable of diagnose the diseases like Cancer, Alzheimer’s etc, these diseases remain still incurable. Because to find the root cause of these diseases, the medical researchers need to analyze patient's medical records, various supportive information, climatic conditions in which they lived in, across different geographical locations. And these a need a platform where a huge volume of data can be stored and analyzed. Hadoop is a powerful platform that allows us to store huge...

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Big Data Explosion

After Kerala's Puttingal Devi Temple fire tragedy, we can visualize sudden data explosion in all digital media. After that tragic incident, huge amount of data are generated in the form of text, voice, photo, video, blogs etc. in internet via social media, news channels, e-news papers and comments, sentiments, various opinions are flooded on whether fire crackers burst should be allowed in devotional places or not. This is a classic example of Big Data where existing traditional software are...

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