Getting acquainted with MapReduce
Now you have a solid knowledge base in HDFS, it is now time to dive into the processing module of Hadoop known as MapReduce. Once we have the data in the cluster, we need a programming model to perform advanced operations on it. This is done using Hadoop's MapReduce.
The MapReduce programming model concept has been in existence for quite some time now. This model was designed to process large volumes of data in parallel. Google implemented a version of MapReduce in house to process their data stored on GFS. Later, Google released a paper explaining their implementation. Hadoop's MapReduce implementation is based on this paper.
MapReduce in Hadoop is a Java-based distributed programming framework that leverages the ...
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