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Forrester once predicted that enterprise adoption of Hadoop will become mandatory. While some companies are still struggling with their Hadoop projects, others are using the big data framework to revolutionize their data storage and analytics. The advantages of Hadoop — flexibility and lower costs — appeal to enterprises, so Hadoop has fundamentally changed how businesses […]

What is the difference between Apache Spark™ and Apache™ Hadoop®? Spark is an open source, in-memory, parallel data processing engine. It is an alternative to MapReduce which is less widely used these days. Spark can run on Hadoop or on its own cluster. What is the difference between big data and Hadoop? Big data is […]

I discovered set analysis with variables recently and thought it would be useful to share how I used them. Even if you know how to use them, check out the end of this blog where I use an extension to make variable changes more usable – your new best friend! This guide is applicable to […]

This cheat sheet outlines some of the main Hadoop commands that we’ve found useful while building our Cloudways alternative hosting service. Generic hadoop fs -ls <path> list files in the path of the file system hadoop fs -chmod <arg> <file-or-dir> alters the permissions of a file where <arg> is the binary argument e.g. 777 hadoop […]

The predicates LIKE and ILIKE are used to search for strings that match a given pattern, so you can search or for a single word (or string) in a long text field. LIKE is case sensitive, ILIKE is case insensitive. You can use these SQL commands via phpMyAdmin on our Cloudways Alternative hosting plans. Usage […]

You’ve invested heavily in your new web site. A domain name, your hosting account, custom themes and plugins, content and maybe even paid a designer to build the site for you. This is where the importance of security plugins comes in the picture. There are some great free security plugins with limited functionality, but to […]

One of the first things you unhappily discovered on your new WordPress website is that there’s a limit to the size of the files you can upload. Especially if you were excited to spice your website up with some hefty media files, you were probably left disheartened to learn that the…

When you’re managing your own website, you’re bound to come across some glitches and errors. While some of them can get annoying, it’s kind of part of the fun of running a website. The issue is a bother, but once you fix it, don’t you feel good about yourself?…

The WordPress admin dashboard holds the control settings for your WordPress website. This is where you create and edit content, upload images and text, choose themes, add plugins, assign roles to multiple users, and much more.

A content management system (CMS) is a type of software which allows users to create, tweak, and publish content on their websites. Content management systems provide an interface which you can use to make your own, self-hosted blog or website…