November 2016
Beginner to intermediate
941 pages
21h 55m
English
book
Python: Real World Machine Learning
by Prateek Joshi, John Hearty, Bastiaan Sjardin, Luca Massaron, Alberto Boschetti
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The Hadoop ecosystem
Apache Hadoop is a very popular software framework for distributed storage and distributed processing on a cluster. Its strengths are in the price (it's free), flexibility (it's open source, and although being written in Java, it can by used by other programming languages), scalability (it can handle clusters composed by thousands of nodes), and robustness (it was inspired by a published paper from Google and has been around since 2011), making it the de facto standard to handle and process big data. Moreover, lots of other projects from the Apache foundation extend its functionalities.
Architecture
Logically, Hadoop is composed of two pieces: distributed storage (HDFS) and distributed processing (YARN and MapReduce). Although ...