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What is HDFS?

What is HDFS? This is the common question that everyone will encounter when they start learning about Hadoop. HDFS deals with the way data is stored and managed by Hadoop Framework. What is a Distributed File System? A distributed file system deals with managing data(files and folder) across multiple nodes or computers. It serves the… Read More »

What is Hadoop?

While reading this article, Hadoop has already reached 3.0 version. However, it is important to know the history and how it evolved in the past. This will help people who are working in the migration projects from Hadoop 1.0 to Hadoop 2.0. It will also help the developers to understand and consider future use cases… Read More »

What is BigData?

What is BigData? It is the question that will arise in the minds when someone wants to learn Hadoop and other distributed processing tools. There is no end to learn about any technology as technology is growing along with you each day. Companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google are already generating Petabytes of data every day.… Read More »

Types of SQL Statements in MS SQL Server

There are different types of statements that can be executed in SQL Server for different purposes. These are basically categorized into four types DDL – Data Definition Language DML – Data Manipulation Language DCL – Data Control Language TCL – Transaction Control Language DDL(Data Definition Language) The name itself suggests that it defines the structure… Read More »

BTEQ – Extract Teradata table to a file

BTEQ stands for Batch Teradata Query. It is one of the utilities in Teradata to perform DDL and DML queries, creating macros, etc. However, the BTEQ export feature is exclusively for exporting the result of a query to a file. BTEQ modes There are two modes of running BTEQ. They are interactive mode and Batch… Read More »

AES Encryption and Decryption in Java

While there are many encryption and decryption algorithms available, AES is one of the robust and reliable modes of encrypting the data. The implementation can be done in many languages as there are libraries and packages available for multiple languages. Creating the AES encryption/decryption library We do not need any special library to be downloaded… Read More »

AES Encryption using Python packages

AES stands for Advanced Encryption Standard. AES is the first and only publicly accessible cipher approved by the National Security Agency(NSA). There is multiple AES package available in python. In this post, we will see the implementation with two different packages in python Method1 – “crypto” package Method2 – “cryptography” package Using the “Crypto” AES package In this… Read More »