Hadoop: The Definitive Guide: Storage and Analysis at Internet Scale

Get ready to unlock the power of your data. With the fourth edition of this comprehensive guide, youâ ll learn how to build and maintain reliable, scalable, distributed systems with Apache Hadoop. This book is ideal for programmers looking to analyze datasets of any size, and for administrators who want to set up and run Hadoop clusters.

Using Hadoop 2 exclusively, author Tom White presents new chapters on YARN and several Hadoop-related projects such as Parquet, Flume, Crunch, and Spark. Youâ ll learn about recent changes to Hadoop, and explore new case studies on Hadoopâ s role in healthcare systems and genomics data processing.

• Learn fundamental components such as MapReduce, HDFS, and YARN
• Explore MapReduce in depth, including steps for developing applications with it
• Set up and maintain a Hadoop cluster running HDFS and MapReduce on YARN
• Learn two data formats: Avro for data serialization and Parquet for nested data
• Use data ingestion tools such as Flume (for streaming data) and Sqoop (for bulk data transfer)
• Understand how high-level data processing tools like Pig, Hive, Crunch, and Spark work with Hadoop
• Learn the HBase distributed database and the ZooKeeper distributed configuration service

Author: Tom White
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 05/05/2015
Pages: 754
Weight: 2.6lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.90w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9781491901632
4th Edition