Hadoop Interview Questions
Questions Answers Views Company eMail

What are the functions of NameNode?

1 1403

How to configure hadoop to reuse JVM for mappers?

791

mapper or reducer?

629

How to resolve IOException: Cannot create directory

675

Does Pig support multi-line commands?

570

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

707

Which one is default InputFormat in Hadoop ?

1 1665

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

770

What is Apache Pig?

576

what is a datanode?

638

How does NameNode tackle DataNode failures?

877

What is InputSplit and RecordReader?

639

What is the purpose of dfsadmin tool?

911

How can you connect an application

720

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

657


Un-Answered Questions { Hadoop }

how will you implement SQL in Spark?

278


What is check pointing in hadoop?

250


What do you mean by Speculative execution in Apache Spark?

199


Is there any point of learning mapreduce, then?

394


How Hadoop’s CLASSPATH plays a vital role in starting or stopping in Hadoop daemons?

219






Explain the term HCatalog?

5


Define Thrift in Apache Cassandra?

49


What are the different collection type in Hive?

439


what is the traditional method of message trfer?

320


How many Mappers run for a MapReduce job in Hadoop?

370


Explain how does hbase actually delete a row?

117


What is shuffleing in mapreduce?

362


Why the output of map tasks are stored (spilled ) into local disc and not in hdfs?

384


State Disadvantages of Apache Kafka?

324


Differentiate between static and dynamic cql tables.

47