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Hadoop Beginner's Guide

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Hadoop Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Data is arriving faster than you can process it and the overall volumes keep growing at a rate that keeps you awake at night. Hadoop can help you tame the data beast. Effective use of Hadoop however requires a mixture of programming, design, and system administration skills."Hadoop Beginner's Guide" removes the mystery from Hadoop, presenting Hadoop and related technologies with a focus on building working systems and getting the job done, using cloud services to do so when it makes sense. From basic concepts and initial setup through developing applications and keeping the system running as the data grows, the book gives the understanding needed to effectively use Hadoop to solve real world problems.Starting with the basics of installing and configuring Hadoop, the book explains how to develop applications, maintain the system, and how to use additional products to integrate with other systems.While learning different ways to develop applications to run on Hadoop the book also covers tools such as Hive, Sqoop, and Flume that show how Hadoop can be integrated with relational databases and log collection.In addition to examples on Hadoop clusters on Ubuntu uses of cloud services such as Amazon, EC2 and Elastic MapReduce are covered.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Hadoop Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – the first run


Let's now perform the initial execution of this algorithm on our starting representation of the graph:

  1. Put the previously created graph.txt file onto HDFS:

    $ hadoop fs -mkdirgraphin
    $ hadoop fs -put graph.txtgraphin/graph.txt
    
  2. Compile the job and create the JAR file:

    $ javac GraphPath.java
    $ jar -cvf graph.jar *.class
    
  3. Execute the MapReduce job:

    $ hadoop jar graph.jarGraphPathgraphingraphout1
    
  4. Examine the output file:

    $ hadoop fs –cat /home/user/hadoop/graphout1/part-r00000
    12,3,40D
    21,41C
    31,5,61C
    41,21C
    53,6-1P
    63,5-1P
    76-1P
    

What just happened?

After putting the source file onto HDFS and creating the job JAR file, we executed the job in Hadoop. The output representation of the graph shows a few changes, as follows:

  • Node 1 is now marked as Done; its distance from itself is obviously 0

  • Nodes 2, 3, and 4 – the neighbors of node 1 — are marked as Currently processing

  • All other nodes are Pending

Our graph now looks like the following figure:

Given the algorithm, this...