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Data Lake for Enterprises

By : Vivek Mishra, Tomcy John, Pankaj Misra
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Data Lake for Enterprises

By: Vivek Mishra, Tomcy John, Pankaj Misra

Overview of this book

The term "Data Lake" has recently emerged as a prominent term in the big data industry. Data scientists can make use of it in deriving meaningful insights that can be used by businesses to redefine or transform the way they operate. Lambda architecture is also emerging as one of the very eminent patterns in the big data landscape, as it not only helps to derive useful information from historical data but also correlates real-time data to enable business to take critical decisions. This book tries to bring these two important aspects — data lake and lambda architecture—together. This book is divided into three main sections. The first introduces you to the concept of data lakes, the importance of data lakes in enterprises, and getting you up-to-speed with the Lambda architecture. The second section delves into the principal components of building a data lake using the Lambda architecture. It introduces you to popular big data technologies such as Apache Hadoop, Spark, Sqoop, Flume, and ElasticSearch. The third section is a highly practical demonstration of putting it all together, and shows you how an enterprise data lake can be implemented, along with several real-world use-cases. It also shows you how other peripheral components can be added to the lake to make it more efficient. By the end of this book, you will be able to choose the right big data technologies using the lambda architectural patterns to build your enterprise data lake.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Part 1 - Overview
Part 2 - Technical Building blocks of Data Lake
Part 3 - Bringing It All Together

Working of Hadoop


Let's now see the internals of Hadoop and its components, it's architecture, and how it works in this section. We will start off by understanding some of Hadoop’s core architecture principles, and then we will explain its architecture and important components in detail.

Hadoop core architecture principles

Hadoop was built and conceived with well-defined architecture goals and principles, as listed here, (the following are in no way authoritative as we can't find one; rather we gathered this from https://goo.gl/3nvERl):

  • Linear scalability (Scale-Out rather than Scale-Up): Add more nodes for scalability to increase data storage and computing power.
  • Bring code to data rather than data to code: In big data, data is usually huge and code working on data is small. So, this principle states that bring or distribute code to the nodes/machines where it can act on data and not distribute or move data. In essence, it means minimize data transfer and distribute code instead.
  • Deal with failures...