This Course enables the students to
1. Define the basic concepts of big data.
2. Understand the concepts of big data technologies.
3. Introduce the tools required to manage and analyze big data
4. Relate data management by RDBMS & NOSQL.
5. Generate applications using map reduce.
6. Develop skills to solve complex real world problems.
Course | Learning Outcome (at course level)
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24MCA 322 | Big Data Technologies (Theory) |
| Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Demonstration with real world examples, Role plays, tool based experiment
Learning activities for the students: Self-learning assignments, Quiz activity, Effective questions, case study based learning approach, presentation, flip classroom |
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Introduction, Need, convergence of key trends, structured data Vs. unstructured data , industry examples of big data, web analytics – big data and marketing, fraud and big data, risk and big data, credit risk management, big data and algorithmic trading, big data and its applications in healthcare, medicine, advertising etc.
Open source technologies, cloud and big data, Crowd Sourcing Analytics, inter and trans firewall analytics
Introduction to Hadoop, Data format, analyzing data with Hadoop, scaling out, Hadoop streaming, Hadoop pipes. Design of Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS), HDFS concepts – Java interface, data flow, Data Ingest with Flume and Sqoop. Hadoop I/O – data integrity, compression, serialization, Avro – file-based data structures.
Introduction to HBase: The Dawn of Big Data, the Problem with Relational Database Systems. Introduction to Cassandra: Introduction to Pig, Hive – data types and file formats – HiveQL data definition – HiveQL data manipulation – HiveQL queries
Introduction to NoSQL, aggregate data models, key-value and document data models, relationships, graph databases, schemaless databases, materialized views, distribution models, sharding, master-slave replication, peer-peer replication Consistency: relaxing consistency, version stamps
MapReduce workflows, unit tests with MRUnit, test data and local tests, anatomy of MapReduce job run, classic Map-reduce – YARN, failures in classic Map-reduce and YARN – job scheduling, shuffle and sort, task execution, MapReduce types – input formats – output formats, MapReduce – partitioning and combining, Composing MapReduce Calculations.
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