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Learning Storm

By : Ankit Jain, Anand Nalya
Book Image

Learning Storm

By: Ankit Jain, Anand Nalya

Overview of this book

<p>Starting with the very basics of Storm, you will learn how to set up Storm on a single machine and move on to deploying Storm on your cluster. You will understand how Kafka can be integrated with Storm using the Kafka spout.</p> <p>You will then proceed to explore the Trident abstraction tool with Storm to perform stateful stream processing, guaranteeing single message processing in every topology. You will move ahead to learn how to integrate Hadoop with Storm. Next, you will learn how to integrate Storm with other well-known Big Data technologies such as HBase, Redis, and Kafka to realize the full potential of Storm.</p> <p>Finally, you will perform in-depth case studies on Apache log processing and machine learning with a focus on Storm, and through these case studies, you will discover Storm's realm of possibilities.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Storm
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Exploring Apache Hadoop


Apache Hadoop is an open source platform to develop and deploy Big Data applications. It was initially developed at Yahoo! based on the MapReduce and Google File System papers published by Google. Over the past few years, Hadoop has become the flagship Big Data platform.

The following are the key components of a Hadoop cluster:

  • Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)

  • Yet Another Resource Negotiator (YARN)

Both HDFS and YARN are based on a set of libraries called Hadoop Common. It provides an abstraction for OS and filesystem operations so that Hadoop can be deployed on a variety of platforms. Now let's have a deeper look into HDFS and YARN.

Understanding HDFS

Commonly known as HDFS, Hadoop Distributed File System is a scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant filesystem. HDFS acts as the storage layer of the Hadoop ecosystem. It allows sharing and storage of data and application code among the various nodes in a Hadoop cluster.

The following were the key assumptions made while...