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Introducing Big Data, Hadoop, and Spark

In pioneer days they used oxen for heavy pulling, and when one ox couldn’t budge a log, they didn’t try to grow a larger ox. We shouldn’t be trying for bigger computers, but for more systems of computers.

Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, American computer scientist

In This Chapter:

Introduction to Big Data and the Apache Hadoop project

Basic overview of the Hadoop core components (HDFS and YARN)

Introduction ...

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