Installing a single-node Hadoop Cluster
In this recipe, we are going to learn how to install a single-node Hadoop cluster, which can be used for development and testing.
Getting ready
To install Hadoop, you need to have a machine with the UNIX operating system installed on it. You can choose from any well known UNIX OS such as Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Amazon Linux (this is in case you are using Amazon Web Service instances).
Here, we will be using the Ubuntu distribution for demonstration purposes.
How to do it...
Let's start installing Hadoop:
- First of all, you need to download the required installers from the Internet. Here, we need to download Java and Hadoop installers. The following are the links to do this:
For the Java download, choose ...
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