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Hadoop in Practice, Second Edition
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Hadoop in Practice, Second Edition

by Alex Holmes
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
13h 54m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 3. Data serialization—working with text and beyond

This chapter covers

  • Working with text, XML, and JSON
  • Understanding SequenceFile, Avro, Protocol Buffers, and Parquet
  • Working with custom data formats

MapReduce offers straightforward, well-documented support for working with simple data formats such as log files. But MapReduce has evolved beyond log files to more sophisticated data-serialization formats—such as text, XML, and JSON—to the point where its documentation and built-in support runs dry. The goal of this chapter is to document how you can work with common data-serialization formats, as well as to examine more structured serialization formats and compare their fitness for use with MapReduce.

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