Hadoop Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What are the functions of NameNode?

1 1415

How to configure hadoop to reuse JVM for mappers?

793

mapper or reducer?

634

How to resolve IOException: Cannot create directory

679

Does Pig support multi-line commands?

580

How to change replication factor of files already stored in HDFS?

713

Which one is default InputFormat in Hadoop ?

1 1673

shouldn't DFS be able to handle large volumes of data already?

778

What is Apache Pig?

584

what is a datanode?

643

How does NameNode tackle DataNode failures?

881

What is InputSplit and RecordReader?

649

What is the purpose of dfsadmin tool?

919

How can you connect an application

724

What are combiners? When should I use a combiner in my MapReduce Job?

662


Un-Answered Questions { Hadoop }

What is the Use of SSH in Hadoop ?

658


what are the main components of cassandra data model?

61


Why do we use persist () on links rdd?

207


why should we use 'group' keyword in pig scripts?

330


In ambari what are the different life cycle commands?

33






How to handle bad records during parsing?

256


What are the advantages of using map side join in mapreduce?

356


Why do we perform partitioning in Hive?

460


What is the difference between traditional RDBMS and Hadoop?

805


What is the difference between a node, a cluster, and data centre?

118


Define Actions.

211


What is meant by in-memory processing in Spark?

217


Suppose hadoop spawned 100 tasks for a job and one of the tasks failed. What will hadoop do?

287


What is metadata storage service in bookkeeper?

1


What is inputformat in hadoop?

426