Head over to the Pivotal Blog for a short primer on Hadoop programming, which walks you through a simple word count program. Learn some basics about Apache Hadoop via four coding approaches:

• using the native Hadoop library
• alternate libraries such as Pig, Hive and Cascading

Stay tuned for the next blog entry in the series, where Spring for Apache Hadoop is introduced for a beginning audience, providing a unified, consistent alternative to the four different methods discussed in this blog post.