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Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Tanmay Deshpande
Book Image

Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Tanmay Deshpande

Overview of this book

Big data is the current requirement. Most organizations produce huge amount of data every day. With the arrival of Hadoop-like tools, it has become easier for everyone to solve big data problems with great efficiency and at minimal cost. Grasping Machine Learning techniques will help you greatly in building predictive models and using this data to make the right decisions for your organization. Hadoop Real World Solutions Cookbook gives readers insights into learning and mastering big data via recipes. The book not only clarifies most big data tools in the market but also provides best practices for using them. The book provides recipes that are based on the latest versions of Apache Hadoop 2.X, YARN, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Flume, Apache Spark, Mahout and many more such ecosystem tools. This real-world-solution cookbook is packed with handy recipes you can apply to your own everyday issues. Each chapter provides in-depth recipes that can be referenced easily. This book provides detailed practices on the latest technologies such as YARN and Apache Spark. Readers will be able to consider themselves as big data experts on completion of this book. This guide is an invaluable tutorial if you are planning to implement a big data warehouse for your business.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Hadoop Real-World Solutions Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding support for a new writable data type in Hadoop


In this recipe, we are going to learn how to introduce a new data type in Map Reduce programs and then use it.

Getting ready

To perform this recipe, you should have a running Hadoop cluster as well as an eclipse that's similar to an IDE.

How to do it...

Hadoop allows us to add new custom data types ,which are made up of one or more primary data types. In the previous recipe, you must have noticed that when you handled the log data structure, you had to remember the sequence in which each data component was placed. This can get very nasty when it comes to complex programs. To avoid this, we will introduce a new data type in which WritableComparable can be used efficiently.

To add a new data type, we need to implement the WritableComparable interface, which is provided by Hadoop. This interface provides three methods, readFields(DataInput in), write(DataOut out), and compareTo(To), which we will need to override with our own custom implementation...