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Hadoop Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Hadoop Beginner's Guide Get your mountain of data under control with Hadoop. This guide requires no prior knowledge of the software or cloud services ‚Äì just a willingness to learn the basics from this practical step-by-step tutorial.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517300
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hadoop Beginner's Guide
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Preface
1. What It's All About 2. Getting Hadoop Up and Running FREE CHAPTER 3. Understanding MapReduce 4. Developing MapReduce Programs 5. Advanced MapReduce Techniques 6. When Things Break 7. Keeping Things Running 8. A Relational View on Data with Hive 9. Working with Relational Databases 10. Data Collection with Flume 11. Where to Go Next Pop Quiz Answers Index

Chapter 2. Getting Hadoop Up and Running

Now that we have explored the opportunities and challenges presented by large-scale data processing and why Hadoop is a compelling choice, it's time to get things set up and running.

In this chapter, we will do the following:

  • Learn how to install and run Hadoop on a local Ubuntu host

  • Run some example Hadoop programs and get familiar with the system

  • Set up the accounts required to use Amazon Web Services products such as EMR

  • Create an on-demand Hadoop cluster on Elastic MapReduce

  • Explore the key differences between a local and hosted Hadoop cluster

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Hadoop Beginner's Guide
Published in: Feb 2013
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781849517300
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