BigData Tutorials and Tools

„Hadoop: the Definitive Guide.“ is the most important text on Hadoop. Online you’ll find other useful tutorials.

So here just a quick list of good Big Data tutorials:

Hadoop

https://developer.yahoo.com/hadoop/tutorial/

https://github.com/templedf/javaone14_handsonhadoop  (Slides)

Spark

http://ampcamp.berkeley.edu/big-data-mini-course-home/

Quick Start VMs

Cloudera and Hortonworks offers you VM Images (single-node cluster). That’s really cool.

Cloudera Quickstart VM

Hortonworks Sandbox

Reference: http://www.oraclejavamagazine-digital.com/javamagazine/march_april_2015#pg52