but after doing some java programming and coming back to C/C++ I've noticed there isn't a 'byte' data type. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>There is. It's called char. Or perhaps unsigned char, since that ...

Although not immediately obvious, C++ is used in Big Data along with Java, MapReduce, Python, and Scala. For example, if you’re using a Hadoop framework, it will be implemented in Java, but MapReduce ...