title: Big Data Made Easy: A Working Guide to the Complete Hadoop Toolset
author:  Michael Frampton 
description: Mike Frampton has been in the IT industry since 1990, working in many roles (tester, developer, support, QA), and in many sectors ( telecoms, banking, energy, insurance). He has also worked for major corporations and banks, including IBM, HP, and JPMorgan Chase. The owner of Semtech Solutions, an IT/Big Data consultancy, Mike currently lives by the beach in Paraparaumu, New Zealand, with his wife and son.
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  About the Tutorial 
  HCatalog is a table storage management tool for Hadoop that exposes the tabular data of 
  Hive metastore to other Hadoop applications. It enables users with different data processing 
  tools (Pig, MapReduce) to easily write data onto a grid. HCatalog ensures that users don’t 
  have to worry about where or in what format their data is stored. This is a small tutorial that 
  explains just the basics of HCatalog and how to use it. 
  Audience 
  This tutorial is meant for professionals aspiring to make a career in Big Data Analytics using 
  Hadoop Framework. ETL developers and professionals who are into analytics in general may 
  as well use this tutorial to good effect. 
  Prerequisites 
  Before proceeding with this tutorial, you need a basic knowledge of Core Java, Database 
  concepts of SQL, Hadoop File system, and any of Linux operating system flavors. 
  Copyright & Disclaimer 
   Copyright 2016 by Tutorials Point (I) Pvt. Ltd.  
  All the content and graphic