Books to start learning big data [closed]

Answer 1

If you are interested in Hive and Pig there are also more specialised books about these technologies:

• Programming Hive
• Programming Pig

Answer 2

Besides the Cloudera resources I'd highly recommend you the reference books from O'Reilly :

• Hadoop: The Definitive Guide
• Programming Pig
• Programming Hive
• HBase: The Definitive Guide

You might also check it's data science kit as well.

Answer 3

I think a good start for beginner will be the Big Data course from Coursera

For example I've learnt the basics of MapReduce techonlology.

Answer 4

How about Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, from O'Reilly Media. It covers everything to do with Hadoop, MapReduce, HDFS and more.

Answer 5

I would suggest to learn machine learning alongside the technology part https://www.coursera.org/course/ml. Learning statistics is also very important.