In the past few years, Hadoop has become a basis and a model for the new age of database systems. By leveraging the power of distributed computing, modern programming models and a rich toolset that sits on top of it, Hadoop is one of the most used and fast growing technologies in the world today, providing competitive advantage for businesses across industries.

Hadoop enables organizations to build new data-driven applications with ease, to handle large amounts of data (“Big Data”), and to solve complex business problems, such as risk management and marketing optimization.
In this pre-conference session we will begin with a background about big data. We will then go over the basic concepts of Hadoop and distributed databases, learn how to write Hadoop jobs using the Map-Reduce model, talk about the various tools that are part of the Hadoop ecosystem including Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Hue and more. Finally, we will discuss Big Data use cases for using Hadoop.

Guy Glantser, Data Platform MVP, is the leader of the Israeli PASS chapter and also the CEO and founder of Madeira Data Solutions. His career has been focused on the Microsoft Data Platform for the past 20 years, performing various database roles as either an on-site DBA, an external consultant or a speaker. Guy is involved in many activities in the Microsoft Data Platform community. He occasionally speaks at community events, such as PASS Summit, SQLBits, SQL Saturdays and user groups around the world. He also co-hosts the SQL Server Radio podcast.