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Big Data Analytics

You're reading from   Big Data Analytics Real time analytics using Apache Spark and Hadoop

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884696
Length 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Venkat Ankam Venkat Ankam
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Preface 1. Big Data Analytics at a 10,000-Foot View 2. Getting Started with Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark FREE CHAPTER 3. Deep Dive into Apache Spark 4. Big Data Analytics with Spark SQL, DataFrames, and Datasets 5. Real-Time Analytics with Spark Streaming and Structured Streaming 6. Notebooks and Dataflows with Spark and Hadoop 7. Machine Learning with Spark and Hadoop 8. Building Recommendation Systems with Spark and Mahout 9. Graph Analytics with GraphX 10. Interactive Analytics with SparkR Index

Installing Hadoop plus Spark clusters

Before installing Hadoop and Spark, let's understand the versions of Hadoop and Spark. Spark is offered as a service in all three popular Hadoop distributions from Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MapR. The current Hadoop and Spark versions are 2.7.2 and 2.0 respectively as of writing this book. However, Hadoop distributions might have a lower version of Spark as Hadoop and Spark release cycles do not coincide.

For the upcoming chapters' practical exercises, let's use one of the free virtual machines (VM) from Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MapR, or use an open source version of Apache Spark. These VMs makes it easy to get started with Spark and Hadoop. The same exercises can be run on bigger clusters as well.

The prerequisites to use virtual machines on your laptop are as follows:

  • RAM of 8 GB and above
  • At least two virtual CPUs
  • The latest VMWare Player or Oracle VirtualBox must be installed for Windows or Linux OS
  • The latest Oracle VirtualBox or VMWare...
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