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AD-801 RGPV B.Tech

Big Data (BD)

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Syllabus, notes and important questions for AD-801

Syllabus units

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Unit 1 Introduction to Big Data 10 topics
  • Introduction to Big data
  • Big data characteristics
  • Types of big data
  • Traditional versus Big data
  • Evolution of Big data
  • Challenges with Big Data
  • Technologies available for Big Data
  • Infrastructure for Big data
  • Use of Data Analytics
  • Desired properties of Big Data system
Unit 1 notes
Unit 2 Introduction to Hadoop 9 topics
  • Core Hadoop components
  • Hadoop Eco system
  • Hive Physical Architecture
  • Hadoop limitations
  • RDBMS Versus Hadoop
  • Hadoop Distributed File system
  • Processing Data with Hadoop
  • Managing Resources and Application with Hadoop YARN
  • MapReduce programming
Unit 2 notes
Unit 3 Hive and Pig 14 topics
  • Hive Architecture
  • Hive Data types
  • Hive Query Language
  • Introduction to Pig
  • Anatomy of Pig
  • Pig on Hadoop
  • Use Case for Pig
  • ETL Processing
  • Data types in Pig
  • Running Pig
  • Execution model of Pig
  • Operators
  • Functions
  • Data types of Pig
Unit 3 notes
Unit 4 Introduction to NoSQL 4 topics
  • NoSQL Business Drivers
  • NoSQL Data architectural patterns
  • Variations of NoSQL architectural patterns using NoSQL to Manage Big Data
  • Introduction to MongoDB
Unit 4 notes
Unit 5 Mining Social Network Graphs 6 topics
  • Applications of social Network mining
  • Social Networks as a Graph
  • Types of social Networks
  • Clustering of social Graphs
  • Direct Discovery of communities in a social graph
  • Introduction to recommender system
Unit 5 notes
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