Apache Hadoop & Spark - Just the basics

Session 1: 6:00-7:00pm

Each time we do a meetup, we start with this Big Data and Hadoop Introductory session because we're getting new people all the time and we want a "standard way" to get them up to speed.

This will be a 1 hour session and content will be the same every time.

Immediately following these intro sessions, we'll dive deeper into a topic related to Big Data and Hadoop.

If you're just getting started with Big Data, this session is for you.

Session 2: 7:00-8:30

The widespread adoption of Hadoop has created an ecosystem of supportive software to help query, move and analyze data. First, we'll take a closer look at Apache Spark - one of the most exciting and fastest growing open source projects in big data. Afterward, we'll tackle the common challenge of querying data on Hadoop by comparing the latest and greatest SQL technologies. Each has a sweet spot and we'll try to do a broad coverage of the leading technologies.