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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)

What we are going to do with the Splunk SDK


Splunk has various SDKs for different languages and platforms. We are going to talk about them shortly and won't cover deep application development. Our goal is to get the result as rapidly as possible and using few application development skills. We can always turn to custom development, and our goal is to get quick insights as soon as possible.

There is a nice portal—https://splunkbase.splunk.com—where you can find hundreds of published applications. Extending Splunk with a SDK is not something special; it's a recommended approach to get extended functionality. This book has a chapter describing integration with MongoDB. The MongoDB integration application is taken from the splunkbase portal. We encourage you to look through published apps before starting to develop your own.

Supported languages

You can use several languages to create custom applications for Splunk:

  • Python

  • Java

  • JavaScript

  • PHP

  • Ruby

  • C#

Great, we have a set of popular languages; it shouldn...