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HDInsight Essentials - Second Edition

By : Rajesh Nadipalli
Book Image

HDInsight Essentials - Second Edition

By: Rajesh Nadipalli

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
HDInsight Essentials Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Other alternatives for analysis


The Hadoop ecosystem has several other specialized tools and projects for data analysis that might be applicable for your use case. I'll mention a few popular open source tools to be considered.

RHadoop

R is a language created for statisticians and has over 2 million users. RHadoop is a set of R packages that run on Hadoop, which are as follows:

  • rmr package provides interface to MapReduce using R code

  • rhdfs package provides interface to HDFS with R

  • rhbase package is required if HBase is used

  • plyrmr package has common data manipulation functions

  • ravro package allows reading and writing to files in an avro format

With RHadoop, data scientists can explore the Data Lake, perform regression analysis to predict the future, identify customer segments and relationships to understand customer behavior, detect outliers for fraud detection, and perform other time series data mining.

Here are some useful links to get further details on RHadoop: