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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

HBase Hive integration


Analysts usually prefer a Hive environment due to the comfort of SQL-like syntax. HBase is well integrated with Hive, using the StorageHandler that Hive interfaces with. The create table syntax in Hive will look like the following:

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE hbase_table_1(key int, value string) 
STORED BY 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.hbase.HBaseStorageHandler'
WITH SERDEPROPERTIES ("hbase.columns.mapping" = ":key,ColumnFamily:Column1, columnFalimy:column2")
TBLPROPERTIES ("hbase.table.name" = "xyz");

Let us understand the syntax and the keywords used for the table:

  • EXTERNAL: This is used if the table in HBase exists already, or if the table in HBase is new and you want Hive to manage only the metadata and not the actual data.

  • STORED BY: The HBaseStorageHandler has to be used to handle the input and output from HBase.

  • SERDEPROPERTIES: Hive column to HBase ColumnFamily:Column mapping has to be specified here. In this example, key maps as a rowkey and value maps to val column of...