Monthly Archive: December 2012

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HDInsight

Resources Getting started – http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/10/24/getting-started-with-windows-azure-hdinsight-service.aspx Running map-reduce jobs – http://gettingstarted.hadooponazure.com/hw/mapReduce.html Dev resources – http://andyelastacloud.azurewebsites.net/?tag=hdinsight (coming up)   Misc Setting up an offline shadow copy of HDInsight (Reference: http://adhocshare.blogspot.in/2012/12/offline-installation-of-products-on-web.html) Steps: > webpicmd /Offline /Products:HDINSIGHT-PREVIEW /Path:D:\HDInsight.setup > WebPICmd.exe /Install /Products:HDINSIGHT-PREVIEW /XML:D:\HDInsight.setup\feeds\shadow-webproductlist.xml Related posts: HDInsight on Windows: Building...

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Offline installation of products on Web platform installer

Important commands Cache local copy of the product and dependencies WebPICMD.exe /Offline /Products:[All|<Title or ID>] /Path:[offline-directory-location] Install from the local copy WebPICmd.exe /Install /Products:<products you want> /XML:<Offline main feed> List all the available product on web platform WebPICmd.exe /List /ListOption:All...

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Installing moonlight on Linux (Chrome and Firefox)

Go to page -> http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/download.aspx Need more help? Let me know.   Related posts: Setting up thunderbird 17 on Linux with Exchange server 2010 emails, contacts and calendar Setting up thunderbird on Linux with Exchange server 2010 emails, contacts and calendar...

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Hadoop on Azure: An Introduction

  I am in complete awe on how this technology is resonating with today’s developers. If I invite developers for an evening event, Big Data is always a sellout. This particular post is about getting everyone up to speed about...

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Hadoop on Windows Azure

Hadoop on Windows Azure Lynn Langit There’s been a lot of buzz about Hadoop lately, and interest in using it to process extremely large data sets seems to grow day by day. With that in mind, I’m going to show...

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A vendor-independent comparison of NoSQL databases: Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Riak

Source: http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2012/102212-nosql-263595.html In 2010, when the world became enchanted by the capabilities of cloud systems and new databases designed to serve them, a group of researchers from Yahoo decided to look into NoSQL. They developed the YCSB framework to assess the performance...