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Learning Hadoop 2

You're reading from   Learning Hadoop 2 Design and implement data processing, lifecycle management, and analytic workflows with the cutting-edge toolbox of Hadoop 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783285518
Length 382 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Storage FREE CHAPTER 3. Processing – MapReduce and Beyond 4. Real-time Computation with Samza 5. Iterative Computation with Spark 6. Data Analysis with Apache Pig 7. Hadoop and SQL 8. Data Lifecycle Management 9. Making Development Easier 10. Running a Hadoop Cluster 11. Where to Go Next Index

Chapter 1. Introduction

This book will teach you how to build amazing systems using the latest release of Hadoop. Before you change the world though, we need to do some groundwork, which is where this chapter comes in.

In this introductory chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • A brief refresher on the background to Hadoop
  • A walk-through of Hadoop's evolution
  • The key elements in Hadoop 2
  • The Hadoop distributions we'll use in this book
  • The dataset we'll use for examples
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