What are the pre-requisites to learn big data?

Pre-requisites for Big Data Hadoop

We, at CloudxLab, keep getting a lot of questions online, sometimes offline, asking us

“I want to learn big data. But, just don’t know whether I am eligible or not.”

“I am so and so, can I learn big data?”

We have compiled the most common questions here. And, we will answer each one of them.

So, here we go.

What are those questions?

  1. I am from a non-technical background. Can I learn big data?
  2. Do I need to know programming languages such as Java, Python, PHP, etc.?
  3. Or, since it is big data, do I need to know any other relational databases such as Oracle or in general do I need to be well versed with SQL?
  4. And also, do I need to know the Unix or Linux?

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