Chapter 1. Hadoop in a heartbeat
This chapter covers
- Examining how the core Hadoop system works
- Understanding the Hadoop ecosystem
- Running a MapReduce job
We live in the age of big data, where the data volumes we need to work with on a day-to-day basis have outgrown the storage and processing capabilities of a single host. Big data brings with it two fundamental challenges: how to store and work with voluminous data sizes, and more important, how to understand data and turn it into a competitive advantage.
Hadoop fills a gap in the market by effectively storing and providing computational capabilities for substantial amounts of data. It’s a distributed system made up of a distributed filesystem, and it offers a way to parallelize and execute ...
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