Chapter Eleven

Analytical Big Data

Hadoop: Analytics at Scale

Welcome to this inexpensive way to store and process the data it’s designed for—a high volume of unstructured data in a highly distributed manner. Learn how Hadoop works and other aspects of Hadoop that are true for the entire NoSQL movement.

Keywords

data warehouse; Hadoop; open source; NoSQL; scale-out; Hortonworks; Hive; Pig; Cloudera; MapReduce; HDFS; DBMS; analytics

A new technology has emerged in recent years that was formed initially in 2006 for the needs of the Silicon Valley data elite. The companies had data needs that far surpassed any budget for DBMS out there. The scale was another order of magnitude away from the target for the DBMS. The timing of the scale was not certain, ...

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