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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

About the Author

Shiva Achari has over 8 years of extensive industry experience and is currently working as a Big Data Architect consultant with companies such as Oracle and Teradata. Over the years, he has architected, designed, and developed multiple innovative and high-performance large-scale solutions, such as distributed systems, data centers, big data management tools, SaaS cloud applications, Internet applications, and Data Analytics solutions.

He is also experienced in designing big data and analytics applications, such as ingestion, cleansing, transformation, correlation of different sources, data mining, and user experience in Hadoop, Cassandra, Solr, Storm, R, and Tableau.

He specializes in developing solutions for the big data domain and possesses sound hands-on experience on projects migrating to the Hadoop world, new developments, product consulting, and POC. He also has hands-on expertise in technologies such as Hadoop, Yarn, Sqoop, Hive, Pig, Flume, Solr, Lucene, Elasticsearch, Zookeeper, Storm, Redis, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Talend, R, Mahout, Tableau, Java, and J2EE.

He has been involved in reviewing Mastering Hadoop, Packt Publishing.

Shiva has expertise in requirement analysis, estimations, technology evaluation, and system architecture along with domain experience in telecoms, Internet applications, document management, healthcare, and media.

Currently, he is supporting presales activities such as writing technical proposals (RFP), providing technical consultation to customers, and managing deliveries of big data practice groups in Teradata.

He is active on his LinkedIn page at http://in.linkedin.com/in/shivaachari/.