MapR Academy Training

MapR provides a full range of training resources to help individuals understand and leverage the power of the industry's most advanced distribution for Apache Hadoop.

MapR offers onsite and open enrollment instructor-led courses that provide a hands-on learning environment with real-world problem-solving activities. Our comprehensive suite of classes and training resources provides job-specific training for MapR administrators, data modelers, and developers, and includes in-depth coverage of related technologies such as HBase, MapReduce, Hive, and Pig.

MapR Academy offers the best Hadoop training for beginners and experts to help you create real solutions for Big Data.

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MapR Academy Videos

Begin your MapR training or sharpen your skills with free online educational resources at MapR Video Academy: a comprehensive library of videos, recorded webinars, and other materials to help you learn Hadoop at your own pace.

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What is Hadoop?

This video introduces Hadoop, the MapReduce programming model, and the applications that Hadoop makes possible. You will cover the Ecosystem of Hadoop tools and how Hadoop is different from previous distributed computing approaches. This is an ideal video to preview for beginners new to Hadoop.
 
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Intro to MapReduce

This video introduces MapReduce concepts and walks step-by-step through the flow of a MapReduce program. It also covers common variations of MapReduce programs.
 
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MapReduce Programming Demo

This video walks through the Java code for an example MapReduce Program and then demonstrates how to run the Hadoop job on a MapR cluster.
 
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MapReduce Programming Details

This video builds on MapReduce Programming Demo and digs deeper into MapReduce features to help developers get started. You will explore a complex MapReduce example that uses multiple stages of MapReduce to detect credit-card fraud.
 
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Why MapR?

This video explores how MapR fits into the overall Hadoop landscape. You will explore common applications of real-world MapR customers and learn about MapR differentiators that benefit Hadoop analysts, developers, and administrators.
 

Current MapR Academy Course Offerings

MapR M5 for Administrators

Suggested attendees: System administrators
Course length: 3 days

Learn MapR system administrator concepts and practices including planning, installation and configuration, load balancing and tuning as well as diagnosing and solving problems in your initial deployment. Learn how to eliminate downtime and performance bottlenecks, setup your Hadoop cluster with direct access NFS™, and enable point-in-time recovery with MapR snapshots. Respond to MapR users by diagnosing, configuring, and solving real world problems in your deployment. At the end of this course, you will have the option to take the MapR Certified Administrator (MCA) exam to verify and certify your expertise.
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MapReduce Hands-On Training

Suggested attendees: Java Developers
Course length: 3 days

This intense three-day hands-on course is designed to make Java developers productive with Hadoop as soon as possible. Once the Hadoop cluster is up and running, you need to transition existing data management applications over to Hadoop quickly, as well as leverage the new capabilities now available to explore new uses of that data. If you're joining an established Big Data team, this course gives you the foundation you need to become productive as soon as possible.

This course covers skills for developing and debugging MapReduce programs and optimizing their performance by Java developers. It also introduces Apache ecosystem projects such as Hive, Pig and HBase.
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HBase Hands-On Training

Suggested attendees: Java Developers with basic Hadoop knowledge
Course length: 2 days

Learn how use HBase as a distributed data store that brings "real-time" performance to the Hadoop ecosystem. This two day course covers the HBase architecture, data model and Java API, as well as several advanced topics and best practices.
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Hive and Pig Hands-On Training

Suggested attendees: Developers with basic Hadoop knowledge
Course length: 2 days

MapR Hive makes Hadoop accessible to users who already know SQL, whereas Pig is similar to popular scripting languages. This course will teach you how to process data by using filters, joins, user-defined functions and more. This two-day course will take your basic knowledge of the Hadoop stack to the next level, helping you use these languages for analysis.
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Hadoop For Solution Architects

Suggested attendees: Solution Architects
Course length: 2 days

This course is designed for Solution Architects who have an understanding of Big Data technologies and are working on creating Architectures for new Hadoop solutions.
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Mahout Hands-On Training

Suggested attendees: Modelers and Data Scientist
Course length: 2 days

This course is designed for Modelers and Data Scientist who are looking to use Mahout for implementing Data Analytics solutions.
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