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Hadoop MapReduce Cookbook

By : Srinath Perera, Thilina Gunarathne
Book Image

Hadoop MapReduce Cookbook

By: Srinath Perera, Thilina Gunarathne

Overview of this book

<p>We are facing an avalanche of data. The unstructured data we gather can contain many insights that might hold the key to business success or failure. Harnessing the ability to analyze and process this data with Hadoop MapReduce is one of the most highly sought after skills in today's job market.<br /><br />"Hadoop MapReduce Cookbook" is a one-stop guide to processing large and complex data sets using the Hadoop ecosystem. The book introduces you to simple examples and then dives deep to solve in-depth big data use cases.</p> <p>"Hadoop MapReduce Cookbook" presents more than 50 ready-to-use Hadoop MapReduce recipes in a simple and straightforward manner, with step-by-step instructions and real world examples.<br /><br />Start with how to install, then configure, extend, and administer Hadoop. Then write simple examples, learn MapReduce patterns, harness the Hadoop landscape, and finally jump to the cloud.<br /><br />The book deals with many exciting topics such as setting up Hadoop security, using MapReduce to solve analytics, classifications, on-line marketing, recommendations, and searching use cases. You will learn how to harness components from the Hadoop ecosystem including HBase, Hadoop, Pig, and Mahout, then learn how to set up cloud environments to perform Hadoop MapReduce computations.<br /><br />"Hadoop MapReduce Cookbook" teaches you how process large and complex data sets using real examples providing a comprehensive guide to get things done using Hadoop MapReduce.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Hadoop MapReduce Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Calculating histograms using MapReduce


Another interesting view into a dataset is a histogram. Histogram makes sense only under a continuous dimension (for example, access time and file size). It groups the number of occurrences of some event into several groups in the dimension. For example, in this recipe, if we take the access time from weblogs as the dimension, then we will group the access time by the hour.

The following figure shows a summary of the execution. Here the mapper calculates the hour of the day and emits the "hour of the day" and 1 as the key and value respectively. Then each reducer receives all the occurrences of one hour of a day, and calculates the number of occurrences:

Getting ready

  • This recipe assumes that you have followed the first chapter and have installed Hadoop. We will use the HADOOP_HOME variable to refer to the Hadoop installation folder.

  • Start Hadoop by following the instructions in the first chapter.

  • This recipe assumes that you are aware of how Hadoop processing...