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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 3. Meeting Hunk Features

Big data analytics is a very popular trend. As a result, most business users want to discover their big data using intuitive and user-friendly tools because exploring data stored in Hadoop or any NoSQL data stores is a challenging task. Fortunately, Hunk does away with all the complexity obstructing analysts and business users. Moreover, it gives additional features that allow us to handle big data in just several mouse clicks. This is possible with Hunk knowledge objects.

In the previous chapter, we created virtual indexes based on web logs for the international fashion retailer Unicorn Fashion. We created some queries and reports via Search Processing Language (SPL). Moreover, we created a web operation dashboard and learnt how to create alerts.

In this chapter, we will explore Hunk knowledge objects, which will help us to achieve better results with less effort. Moreover, we will become familiar with pivots and data models, in order to learn how to work...