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\"10<\/a>So many times when you see your favorite teams lose in championship games or a company fails to meet its revenue goals, years later you will see an interview and one of the leaders will say that \u201cthey learned more from losing than they ever did winning.\u201d Some might think that this is a losing philosophy, but I wholeheartedly buy into it because let\u2019s face it; we are not all 100% perfect.<\/p>\n

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And those who lose but learn from mistakes made will prosper in the long run. With that I\u2019d like to make a connection to an article written by Andrew C. Oliver, President of Open Software Integrators, called \u201cThe 10 worst big data practices<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Below is a list of Andrew C. Oliver\u2019s 10 worst big data practices.<\/p>\n

1. Choosing MongoDB as your big data platform<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

MongoDB is a good operational database, but not an analytics system.<\/p>\n

2. Using RDBMS schema as files.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are better ways to create an extract that\u2019s more denormalized.<\/p>\n

3. Creating data ponds.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you create a bunch of data ponds for each business group, you will end up with different views of the data.<\/p>\n

4. Failing to develop plausible use cases.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Come up with use cases before the project starts.\u00a0 You may find that there are certain things you really don\u2019t need even if the vendor recommends it. \u00a0Ask yourself the right questions.<\/p>\n

5. Thinking Hive is the be-all, end-all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get locked in on SQL just because you are familiar with it. Reach outside your knowledge comfort zone and learn something new.<\/p>\n

6. Treating HBase like an RDBMS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You can do things with HBase that would make your RDBMS’s head spin, but the reverse is also true. HBase is good for what HBase is good for, and it is terrible at nearly everything else.<\/p>\n

7. Installing 100 nodes by hand.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sounds good until someone loses a node during this cumbersome activity.<\/p>\n

8. RAID\/LVM\/SAN\/VMing your data nodes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHadoop stripes blocks of data across multiple nodes, and RAID stripes it across multiple disks. Put them together, what do you have? A roaring, low-performing, latent mess.\u201d<\/p>\n

9. Treating HDFS as just a file system.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you dump stuff onto HDFS, you haven’t necessarily accomplished anything.<\/p>\n

10. Whoo, shiney!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAs with any technology — or anything in life — find that moderate path that prevents you from being the last gazelle in the pack or the first lemming off the cliff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Again, no one is 100% perfect and here are just 10 ways you could go wrong with big data. However, I thought that highlighting Andrew C. Oliver’s analysis of bad practices could help you avoid them in the future and save you lots of time and stress rerouting them. I hope that you found this helpful.<\/p>\n

Do you agree with this for the 10 worst big data practices? Would you add something to this list or delete anything?<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to read Andrew C. Oliver\u2019s entire article on InfoWorld and learn more about\u00a0the bad practices on this list.<\/p>\n

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