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Modern Big Data Processing with Hadoop

By : V Naresh Kumar, Manoj R Patil, Prashant Shindgikar
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Modern Big Data Processing with Hadoop

By: V Naresh Kumar, Manoj R Patil, Prashant Shindgikar

Overview of this book

The complex structure of data these days requires sophisticated solutions for data transformation, to make the information more accessible to the users.This book empowers you to build such solutions with relative ease with the help of Apache Hadoop, along with a host of other Big Data tools. This book will give you a complete understanding of the data lifecycle management with Hadoop, followed by modeling of structured and unstructured data in Hadoop. It will also show you how to design real-time streaming pipelines by leveraging tools such as Apache Spark, and build efficient enterprise search solutions using Elasticsearch. You will learn to build enterprise-grade analytics solutions on Hadoop, and how to visualize your data using tools such as Apache Superset. This book also covers techniques for deploying your Big Data solutions on the cloud Apache Ambari, as well as expert techniques for managing and administering your Hadoop cluster. By the end of this book, you will have all the knowledge you need to build expert Big Data systems.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Kafka Connect

Kafka Connect is a part of Apache Kafka. It is a framework to ingest data from one to another system using connectors. There are two types of connectors: source connectors and sink connectors. The sink connectors import data from source systems and write to Kafka topics. The sink connectors read data from the Kafka topic and export it to target systems. Kafka Connect provides various source and sink connectors out of the box.

Kafka Connect – a brief history

Kafka Connect was mainly introduced in November 2015 in Kafka 0.9.x. In addition to the various features of Kafka 0.9.x, Connect APIs was a brand new feature. Then, in May 2016, the new version Kafka 0.10.0 was released. In that version, Kafka Streams...