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Mastering Hadoop

You're reading from   Mastering Hadoop Go beyond the basics and master the next generation of Hadoop data processing platforms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783983643
Length 374 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sandeep Karanth Sandeep Karanth
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Preface 1. Hadoop 2.X FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced MapReduce 3. Advanced Pig 4. Advanced Hive 5. Serialization and Hadoop I/O 6. YARN – Bringing Other Paradigms to Hadoop 7. Storm on YARN – Low Latency Processing in Hadoop 8. Hadoop on the Cloud 9. HDFS Replacements 10. HDFS Federation 11. Hadoop Security 12. Analytics Using Hadoop A. Hadoop for Microsoft Windows Index

Deploying Hadoop on Microsoft Windows

In this section, we will look in detail as to how we can build and install Hadoop natively on a Windows system. We will be using Windows 8 to install Hadoop. The same steps can be employed to install Hadoop on Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7. We will be installing Hadoop on a 64-bit Windows OS running on 64-bit hardware.

Prerequisites

Installing Hadoop on Windows requires the following platforms, software, and tools installed:

  • Java JDK: Java is the soul of Hadoop and requires it to be installed on the machine. Java from Oracle comes with the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and the Java Development Kit (JDK). Hadoop installation requires the JDK. The JDK can be obtained from Oracle's website. To reiterate, it is very important to choose the JDK that is higher than 1.6. We will choose the latest—JDK 1.8. The following screenshot shows the page from where the JDK can be downloaded. In this example, we choose the Windows x64 product. A 32-bit...
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