Executing our first sample MapReduce job using the mongo-hadoop connector
In this recipe, we will see how to build the mongo-hadoop connector from the source and set up Hadoop just for the purpose of running the examples in the standalone mode. The connector is the backbone that runs Hadoop MapReduce jobs on Hadoop using the data in Mongo.
Getting ready
There are various distributions of Hadoop; however, we will use Apache Hadoop (http://hadoop.apache.org/). The installation will be done on Ubuntu Linux. Apache Hadoop always runs on the Linux environment for production, and Windows is not tested for production systems. For development purposes, Windows can be used. If you are a Windows user, I would recommend that you install a virtualization environment ...
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