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Hadoop Essentials

You're reading from   Hadoop Essentials Delve into the key concepts of Hadoop and get a thorough understanding of the Hadoop ecosystem

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784396688
Length 194 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Shiva Achari Shiva Achari
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Preface 1. Introduction to Big Data and Hadoop FREE CHAPTER 2. Hadoop Ecosystem 3. Pillars of Hadoop – HDFS, MapReduce, and YARN 4. Data Access Components – Hive and Pig 5. Storage Component – HBase 6. Data Ingestion in Hadoop – Sqoop and Flume 7. Streaming and Real-time Analysis – Storm and Spark Index

Chapter 3. Pillars of Hadoop – HDFS, MapReduce, and YARN

We discussed in the last two chapters about big data, Hadoop, and the Hadoop ecosystem. Now, let's discuss more technical aspects about Hadoop Architecture. Hadoop Architecture is extremely flexible, scalable, and fault tolerant. The key to the success of Hadoop is its architecture that allows the data to be loaded as it is and stored in a distributed way, which has no data loss and no preprocessing is required.

We know that Hadoop is distributed computing and a parallel processing environment. Hadoop architecture can be divided in two parts: storage and processing. Storage in Hadoop is handled by Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), and processing is handled by MapReduce, as shown in the following image:

Pillars of Hadoop – HDFS, MapReduce, and YARN

In this chapter, we will cover the basics of HDFS concept, Architecture, some key features, how Read and Write process happens, and some examples. MapReduce is the heart of Hadoop, and we will cover the Architecture...

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