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Java Data Analysis

You're reading from   Java Data Analysis Data mining, big data analysis, NoSQL, and data visualization

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787285651
Length 412 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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John R. Hubbard John R. Hubbard
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Preface 1. Introduction to Data Analysis FREE CHAPTER 2. Data Preprocessing 3. Data Visualization 4. Statistics 5. Relational Databases 6. Regression Analysis 7. Classification Analysis 8. Cluster Analysis 9. Recommender Systems 10. NoSQL Databases 11. Big Data Analysis with Java A. Java Tools Index

Apache Hadoop

Apache Hadoop is an open-source software system that allows for the distributed storage and processing of very large datasets. It implements the MapReduce framework.

The system includes these modules:

  • Hadoop Common: The common libraries and utilities that support the other Hadoop modules
  • Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFSâ„¢): A distributed filesystem that stores data on commodity machines, providing high-throughput access across the cluster
  • Hadoop YARN: A platform for job scheduling and cluster resource management
  • Hadoop MapReduce: An implementation of the Google MapReduce framework

Hadoop originated as the Google File System in 2003. Its developer, Doug Cutting, named it after his son's toy elephant. By 2006, it had become HDFS, the Hadoop Distributed File System.

In April of 2006, using MapReduce, Hadoop set a record of sorting 1.8 TB of data, distributed in 188 nodes, in under 48 hours. Two years later, it set the world record by sorting one terabyte of data in 209...

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