
OBJECTIVE
CHAPTER
3
Introducing Hadoop
3.1 Introduction
3.2 An Overview of Hadoop
3.3 Con guring a Hadoop Cluster
3.4 Storing Data with HDFS
3.5 HDFS Technical Commands
3.6 Hadoop Distributions
3.7 Hadoop in the Cloud
In the last two chapters, you are introduced to the
concepts of data and the different types of data, namely
structured, unstructured and semi-structured. You
might have also known to derive the best value of data
from traditional data management and how ‘new’ data
management has evolved. Subsequently, the occur-
rence of such events led to the inception of Big Data.
We have examined the different facets of Big Data ...