Aaron Kimball

Aaron Kimball
Software Engineer, Cloudera, Inc.

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Aaron Kimball is a software engineer at Cloudera, Inc., the Commercial Hadoop company. Aaron is the principle developer of Sqoop, the SQL-to-Hadoop database import/export tool. Aaron has been working with Hadoop since early 2007, and contributes actively to its development. Through Cloudera, he additionally provides training to developers and system administrators working with Hadoop. Aaron holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and an M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington.

Sessions

8:30am Monday, 07/19/2010
Introduction to Hadoop (the what)
Hadoop
 Location: E141/E142
Tags: cloud, hadoop
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Aaron Kimball (Cloudera, Inc.)
Average rating: ***..
(3.29, 17 ratings)
Cloudera's Introduction to Hadoop provides a solid foundation for those seeking to understand large scale data processing with MapReduce and Hadoop. This session is appropriate for attendees who are new to Hadoop and are seeking to understand where Hadoop is appropriate and how it fits with existing systems. Read more.
1:30pm Monday, 07/19/2010
Introduction to Hadoop (the how)
Hadoop
 Location: E141/E142
Tags: cloud, hadoop
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Aaron Kimball (Cloudera, Inc.)
Average rating: ***..
(3.38, 16 ratings)
Cloudera's Introduction to Hadoop provides a solid foundation for those seeking to understand large scale data processing with MapReduce and Hadoop. This session is appropriate for attendees who need to use Hadoop to analyze data with Hadoop's MapReduce paradigm. Read more.
8:30am Tuesday, 07/20/2010
Introduction to Hive - CANCELED
Hadoop
 Location: E141/E142
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Aaron Kimball (Cloudera, Inc.)
Hive is a powerful data warehousing application built on top of Hadoop which allows you to use SQL to access your data. This tutorial is appropriate for people that have experience with SQL and want to analyze large data sets using Hadoop and HiveQL. Read more.
1:30pm Tuesday, 07/20/2010
Introduction to HBase - CANCELED
Hadoop
 Location: E141/E142
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Aaron Kimball (Cloudera, Inc.)
HBase is a distributed, sparse column-oriented store modeled after Google's BigTable and built on Hadoop's Distributed File System (HDFS). This talk will explain the use cases for using HBase and how to use it. Read more.
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