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Hadoop Essentials

By : Shiva Achari
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Hadoop Essentials

By: Shiva Achari

Overview of this book

This book jumps into the world of Hadoop and its tools, to help you learn how to use them effectively to optimize and improve the way you handle Big Data. Starting with the fundamentals Hadoop YARN, MapReduce, HDFS, and other vital elements in the Hadoop ecosystem, you will soon learn many exciting topics such as MapReduce patterns, data management, and real-time data analysis using Hadoop. You will also explore a number of the leading data processing tools including Hive and Pig, and learn how to use Sqoop and Flume, two of the most powerful technologies used for data ingestion. With further guidance on data streaming and real-time analytics with Storm and Spark, Hadoop Essentials is a reliable and relevant resource for anyone who understands the difficulties - and opportunities - presented by Big Data today. With this guide, you'll develop your confidence with Hadoop, and be able to use the knowledge and skills you learn to successfully harness its unparalleled capabilities.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Hadoop Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
3
Pillars of Hadoop – HDFS, MapReduce, and YARN
Index

Data ingestion


Data management in big data is an important and critical aspect. We have to import and export large scale data to do processing, which becomes unmanageable in the production environment. In Hadoop, we deal with different set of sources such as batch, streaming, real time, and also sources that are complex in data formats, as some are semi-structured and unstructured too. Managing such data is very difficult, therefore we have some tools for data management such as Flume, Sqoop, and Storm, which are mentioned as follows:

  • Apache Flume: Apache Flume is a widely used tool for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data from many different sources to a centralized data store. Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available system. It performs well if a source is streaming, for example, log files.

  • Apache Sqoop: Sqoop can be used to manage data between Hadoop and relational databases, enterprise data warehouses, and NoSQL systems. Sqoop has different...