give me some opinions, thanks

[王学超 <wa...@gmail.com>]

Hello，everyone！
   Our company prepared to use hadoop to deal with massive data. because i
don't know well about hadoop. there are following questions. please give me
some opinions thanks firstly!


1、What is specificed at programming type vs. configured at run-time in terms
of parallelization, environment, etc?

2、What kind of out-of-box samples are packaged with the middleware?

3、What programming models are supported? please describe the nature of the
APIs provided

RE: give me some opinions, thanks

["Goel, Ankur" <An...@corp.aol.com>]

Hi,
      Just to give you a brief idea, Hadoop is a distributed computing platform written in Java that lets one easily write and run applications that process vast amounts of data.  The applications are written using the MapReduce programming model which typically used for writing applications that process large data-sets. The data itself is stored in Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). 

For more information on Map/Reduce, refer to http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-hadoop/HadoopMapReduce
For more information on HDFS, refer to http://lucene.apache.org/hadoop/hdfs_design.html

Please see my replies inline below as more precise answers to your questions.

-Ankur

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Subject: give me some opinions, thanks

Hello，everyone！
   Our company prepared to use hadoop to deal with massive data. because i don't know well about hadoop. there are following questions. please give me some opinions thanks firstly!


1、What is specificed at programming type vs. configured at run-time in terms of parallelization, environment, etc?

[Ankur]: Refer to http://lucene.apache.org/hadoop/docs/r0.15.1/mapred_tutorial.html

2、What kind of out-of-box samples are packaged with the middleware?

[Ankur]: Refer to http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-hadoop/ ,  Search for Examples and click on link for individual example to get a fair idea.

3、What programming models are supported? please describe the nature of the APIs provided

Map/Reduce is the only programming model supported. The APIs that a typical map/reduce job writer will use are mostly
reated to available Data-types and supported data-formats, Map/Reduce specific classes and interfaces and utlity classes
and interfaces for  HDFS access. You can refer to the latest API javadoc which is available at 
http://lucene.apache.org/hadoop/docs/r0.15.1/api/index.html