Course Code: ITE 5324
Academic Year: 2025-2026
This course would be hands-on course introducing the student to big data. The student will learn about the characteristics of Big Data, what Big Data is and the need for Hadoop to be able to process the data and handle the variety of volume of data. The course describes the Hadoop architecture, Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), how to load data into HDFS, query large amounts of data using Map Reduce. This course also will introduce the students to additional tools such as Hive and Pig as well as NoSQL data storage such as MongoDB, Cassandra and HBase.