Hands-on with CDH

In this section, we will utilize the CDH QuickStart VM to work through some of the topics that have been discussed in the current chapter. The exercises do not have to be necessarily performed in a chronological order and are not dependent upon the completion of any of the other exercises.

We will complete the following exercises in this section:

• WordCount using Hadoop MapReduce
• Working with the HDFS
• Downloading and querying data with Apache Hive

WordCount using Hadoop MapReduce

In this exercise, we will be attempting to count the number of occurrences of each word in one of the longest novels ever written. For the exercise, we have selected the book Artamène ou le Grand Cyrus written by Georges and...