Results for the "Hadoop Platform And Application Framework" Course from Coursera - 2nd Course of the Big Data Specialization series (offered by University of California, San Diego) Duration: 3 weeks his course is for novice programmers or business people who'd like to understand the core tools used to wrangle and analyze big data. With no prior experience, you'll have the opportunity to walk through hands-on examples with Hadoop and Spark frameworks, two of the most common in the industry. You will be comfortable explaining the specific components and basic processes of the Hadoop architecture, software stack, and execution environment.