Book description
Hadoop in Action introduces the subject and teaches you how to write programs in the MapReduce style. It starts with a few easy examples and then moves quickly to show Hadoop use in more complex data analysis tasks. Included are best practices and design patterns of MapReduce programming.
About the Technology
Big data can be difficult to handle using traditional databases. Apache Hadoop is a NoSQL applications framework that runs on distributed clusters. This lets it scale to huge datasets. If you need analytic information from your data, Hadoop's the way to go.
About the Book
What's Inside
- Introduction to MapReduce
- Examples illustrating ideas in practice
- Hadoop's Streaming API
- Other related tools, like Pig and Hive
About the Reader
This book requires basic Java skills. Knowing basic statistical concepts can help with the more advanced examples.
About the Author
Chuck Lam is a Senior Engineer at RockYou! He has a PhD in pattern recognition from Stanford University.
Quotes
A guide for beginners, a source of insight for advanced users.
- Philipp K. Janert, Principal Value, LLC
A nice mix of the what, why, and how of Hadoop.
- Paul Stusiak, Falcon Technologies Corp.
Demystifies Hadoop. A great resource!
- Rick Wagner, Acxiom Corp.
Covers it all! Plus, gives you sweet extras no one else does.
- John S. Griffin, Overstock.com
An excellent introduction to Hadoop and MapReduce.
- Kenneth DeLong, BabyCenter, LLC
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- Author Online
- About the author
- About the cover illustration
- Part 1. Hadoop—A Distributed Programming Framework
- Chapter 1. Introducing Hadoop
- Chapter 2. Starting Hadoop
- Chapter 3. Components of Hadoop
- Part 2. Hadoop in Action
- Chapter 4. Writing basic MapReduce programs
- Chapter 5. Advanced MapReduce
- Chapter 6. Programming Practices
- Chapter 7. Cookbook
- Chapter 8. Managing Hadoop
- Part 3. Hadoop Gone Wild
- Chapter 9. Running Hadoop in the cloud
- Chapter 10. Programming with Pig
- Chapter 11. Hive and the Hadoop herd
- Chapter 12. Case studies
- Appendix A. HDFS file commands
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
Product information
- Title: Hadoop in Action
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2010
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781935182191
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