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Learning Hunk

By : Dmitry Anoshin, Sergey Sheypak
Book Image

Learning Hunk

By: Dmitry Anoshin, Sergey Sheypak

Overview of this book

Hunk is the big data analytics platform that lets you rapidly explore, analyse, and visualize data in Hadoop and NoSQL data stores. It provides a single, fluid user experience, designed to show you insights from your big data without the need for specialized skills, fixed schemas, or months of development. Hunk goes beyond typical data analysis methods and gives you the power to rapidly detect patterns and find anomalies across petabytes of raw data. This book focuses on exploring, analysing, and visualizing big data in Hadoop and NoSQL data stores with this powerful full-featured big data analytics platform. You will begin by learning the Hunk architecture and Hunk Virtual Index before moving on to how to easily analyze and visualize data using Splunk Search Language (SPL). Next you will meet Hunk Apps which can easy integrate with NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB or Sqqrl. You will also discover Hunk knowledge objects, build a semantic layer on top of Hadoop, and explore data using the friendly user-interface of Hunk Pivot. You will connect MongoDB and explore data in the data store. Finally, you will go through report acceleration techniques and analyze data in the AWS Cloud.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Chapter 2. Explore Hadoop Data with Hunk

Hadoop has become an enterprise standard for big organizations working towards mining and implementing big data strategies. The use of Hadoop on a larger scale is set to become the new standard for practical, result-driven applications for data mining. However, it is a challenging task to extract data from Hadoop in order to explore it and find business insights. It is a fact that Hadoop provides cheap storage for any data but, unfortunately, it is inflexible for data analytics. There are plenty of tools that can add flexibility and interactivity for analytics tasks, but they have many restrictions.

Hunk avoids the main drawbacks of big data analytics and offers rich functionality and interactivity for analytics.

In this chapter you will learn how to deploy Hunk on top of Hadoop in order to start discovering Hunk. In addition, we will load data into Hadoop and will discover it via Hunk, using the Splunk Processing Language (SPL). Finally, we will learn...