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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

Hive


Hive provides a data warehouse environment in Hadoop with a SQL-like wrapper and also translates the SQL commands in MapReduce jobs for processing. SQL commands in Hive are called as HiveQL, which doesn't support the SQL 92 dialect and should not be assumed to support all the keywords, as the whole idea is to hide the complexity of MapReduce programming and perform analysis on the data.

Hive can also act as an analytical interface with other systems as most of the systems integrate well with Hive. Hive cannot be used for handling transactions, as it doesn't provide row-level updates and real-time queries.

The Hive architecture

Hive architecture has different components such as:

  • Driver: Driver manages the lifecycle of a HiveQL statement as it moves through Hive and also maintains a session handle for session statistics.

  • Metastore: Metastore stores the system catalog and metadata about tables, columns, partitions, and so on.

  • Query Compiler: It compiles HiveQL into a DAG of optimized map...