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Big Data Analytics with Hadoop 3

By : Sridhar Alla
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Big Data Analytics with Hadoop 3

By: Sridhar Alla

Overview of this book

Apache Hadoop is the most popular platform for big data processing, and can be combined with a host of other big data tools to build powerful analytics solutions. Big Data Analytics with Hadoop 3 shows you how to do just that, by providing insights into the software as well as its benefits with the help of practical examples. Once you have taken a tour of Hadoop 3’s latest features, you will get an overview of HDFS, MapReduce, and YARN, and how they enable faster, more efficient big data processing. You will then move on to learning how to integrate Hadoop with the open source tools, such as Python and R, to analyze and visualize data and perform statistical computing on big data. As you get acquainted with all this, you will explore how to use Hadoop 3 with Apache Spark and Apache Flink for real-time data analytics and stream processing. In addition to this, you will understand how to use Hadoop to build analytics solutions on the cloud and an end-to-end pipeline to perform big data analysis using practical use cases. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the analytical capabilities of the Hadoop ecosystem. You will be able to build powerful solutions to perform big data analytics and get insight effortlessly.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
4
Scientific Computing and Big Data Analysis with Python and Hadoop
Index

The MapReduce framework


MapReduce is a framework used to compute a large amount of data in a Hadoop cluster. MapReduce uses YARN to schedule the mappers and reducers as tasks, using the containers. 

An example of a MapReduce job to count frequencies of words is shown in the following diagram:

MapReduce works closely with YARN to plan the job and the various tasks in the job, requests computing resources from the cluster manager (resource manager), schedules the execution of the tasks on the compute resources of the cluster, and then executes the plan of execution. Using MapReduce, you can read write many different types of files of varying formats and perform very complex computations in a distributed manner. We will see more of this in the next chapter on MapReduce frameworks.