Deployment of Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP 2.2.4) using Apache Ambari 2.0 on Azure Linux VM


Recently, Apache Ambari 2.0 is released with several exciting features like Ambari stacks, views & ambari monitoring , metrices. Using Ambari 2.0, HDP 2.2.4 can be deployed which contains default support of Apache Spark, Apache Knox, Ambari Metrices, Apache Ranger etc(apart of other hadoop ecosystem components).

In this following demo from this video, we’ve depicted the steps of provisioning an azure linux centos 6.5 node, configuration of the node due to deployment of ambari, installation of ambari, starting ambari server/agent & finally deployment of HDP.

Worldwide EarthQuake Data Analysis (Nepal EarthQuake)- Microsoft PowerBI


Last weekend, we all were horrified by the terrible earthquake attack over Nepal, India & greater Asia, it’s continued over toll of millions of death which has several parameters to consider like ‘depth of KM’ of the earthquake, ‘magnitude of quake, severity of deaths, number of people died on quake, number of people died on shaking effect’ etc.

In this current powerbi demo, we’re using World’s dreadful earthquake incidents happened over the millennium 1900.

 

 

On , Excel power view dashboard, here depicted some the latest death toll analysis report of Nepal Earthquake 2015.

Earthquake

 

Earthquake-toll

In latest, powerbi designer preview, represented worldwide country wise earthquake magnitude data analysis sorted by Total death & depth of KM of quake intensity.

Worldwide-analysis

Death-analysis

 

Countrywide-report

 

Deployment of Apache Hadoop 2.7.0 on Ubuntu Vivid 15.04 on Azure Linux VM


Recently, on april 21st, the first release of 2015 of Apache Hadoop is committed, the version 2.7.0 is came up as dev edition. Lots of new updates have added.

  • This release drops support for JDK6 runtime & works with JDK 7+ only.
  • This release is yet not ready for production use. But, production users should wait for 2.7.1/2.7.2 release.

In Hadoop common, first time it has got support for Azure Blob storage – blob as file system for Azure.

Other than that, Hadoop HDFS has got support for file truncate, support for quotas per storage type & support for files with variable-length blocks. For Yarn & MapReduce, some of the new pluggins are added like Yarn authorization made pluggable, global caching of YARN localized resources, ability to limit running MapReduce of a job.

Here goes a step by step guide on installation of Apache Hadoop 2.7.0 on Azure Linux Virtual Machine(Ubuntu 15.04) .