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Apache Hadoop 3 Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Apache Hadoop 3 Quick Start Guide Learn about big data processing and analytics

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788999830
Length 220 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hrishikesh Vijay Karambelkar Hrishikesh Vijay Karambelkar
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Preface 1. Hadoop 3.0 - Background and Introduction 2. Planning and Setting Up Hadoop Clusters FREE CHAPTER 3. Deep Dive into the Hadoop Distributed File System 4. Developing MapReduce Applications 5. Building Rich YARN Applications 6. Monitoring and Administration of a Hadoop Cluster 7. Demystifying Hadoop Ecosystem Components 8. Advanced Topics in Apache Hadoop 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with data structures in HDFS

When you work with Apache Hadoop, one of the key design decisions that you take is to identify the most appropriate data structures for storing your data in HDFS. In general, Apache Hadoop provides different data storage for any kind of data, which could be text data, image data, or any other binary data format. We will be looking at different data structures supported by HDFS, as well as other ecosystems, in this section.

Understanding SequenceFile

Hadoop SequenceFile is one of the most commonly used file formats for all HDFS storage. SequenceFile is a binary file format that persists all of the data that is passed to Hadoop in <key, value> pairs in a serialized form, depicted in...

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