Get ready to unlock the power of your data. With the fourth edition of this comprehensive guide
you’ll learn how to build and maintain reliable scalable distributed systems with Apache
Hadoop. This book is ideal for programmers looking to analyze datasets of any size and for
administrators who want to set up and run Hadoop clusters. Using Hadoop 2 exclusively author
Tom White presents new chapters on YARN and several Hadoop-related projects such as Parquet
Flume Crunch and Spark. You’ll learn about recent changes to Hadoop and explore new case
studies on Hadoop’s role in healthcare systems and genomics data processing. * Learn
fundamental components such as MapReduce HDFS and YARN * Explore MapReduce in depth
including steps for developing applications with it * Set up and maintain a Hadoop cluster
running HDFS and MapReduce on YARN * Learn two data formats: Avro for data serialization and
Parquet for nested data * Use data ingestion tools such as Flume (for streaming data) and Sqoop
(for bulk data transfer) * Understand how high-level data processing tools like Pig Hive
Crunch and Spark work with Hadoop * Learn the HBase distributed database and the ZooKeeper
distributed configuration service
