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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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Part 3. Big data patterns

Now that you’ve gotten to know Hadoop and know how to best organize, move, and store your data in Hadoop, you’re ready to explore part 3 of this book, which examines the techniques you need to know to streamline your big data computations.

In chapter 6 we’ll examine techniques for optimizing MapReduce operations, such as joining and sorting on large datasets. These techniques make jobs run faster and allow for more efficient use of computational resources.

Chapter 7 examines how graphs can be represented and utilized in Map-Reduce to solve algorithms such as friends-of-friends and PageRank. It also covers how data structures such as Bloom filters and HyperLogLog can be used when regular data structures can’t scale to ...

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