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Mastering Python for Finance
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Mastering Python for Finance

by James Ma Weiming
April 2015
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
7h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Hadoop for big data

Apache Hadoop is a 100 percent open source software framework used for two important fundamental tasks: storing and processing big data. It has been the leading big data tool for distributed parallel processing of data stored across multiple servers and is able to scale without limits. Because of its scalability, flexibility, fault tolerance, and low-cost features, many cloud-based solution vendors, financial institutions, and enterprises use Hadoop for their big data needs.

The Hadoop framework contains modules that are critical to its functions: the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Yet Another Resource Negotiator (YARN), and MapReduce (MapR).

HDFS

HDFS is a file system unique to Hadoop that is designed to be scalable and ...

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