Learning Hadoop 2

Garry Turkington, Gabriele Modena

• Editorial: Packt Publishing
• Año: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781783285518
• Categoría: Informatique
• Categoría: Bases de données

Learning Hadoop 2

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Table of Contents

Learning Hadoop 2

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Introduction

A note on versioning

The background of Hadoop

Components of Hadoop

Common building blocks

Storage

Computation

Better together

Hadoop 2 – what's the big deal?

Storage in Hadoop 2

Computation in Hadoop 2

Distributions of Apache Hadoop

A dual approach

AWS – infrastructure on demand from Amazon

Simple Storage Service (S3)

Elastic MapReduce (EMR)

Getting started

Cloudera QuickStart VM

Amazon EMR

Creating an AWS account

Signing up for the necessary services

Using Elastic MapReduce

Getting Hadoop up and running

How to use EMR

AWS credentials

The AWS command-line interface

Running the examples

Data processing with Hadoop

Why Twitter?

Building our first dataset

One service, multiple APIs

Anatomy of a Tweet

Twitter credentials

Programmatic access with Python

Summary

2. Storage

The inner workings of HDFS

Cluster startup

NameNode startup

DataNode startup

Block replication

Command-line access to the HDFS filesystem

Exploring the HDFS filesystem

Protecting the filesystem metadata

Secondary NameNode not to the rescue

Hadoop 2 NameNode HA

Keeping the HA NameNodes in sync

Client configuration

How a failover works

Apache ZooKeeper – a different type of filesystem

Implementing a distributed lock with sequential ZNodes

Implementing group membership and leader election using ephemeral ZNodes

Java API

Building blocks

Further reading

Automatic NameNode failover

HDFS snapshots

Hadoop filesystems

Hadoop interfaces

Java FileSystem API

Libhdfs

Thrift

Managing and serializing data

The Writable interface

Introducing the wrapper classes

Array wrapper classes

The Comparable and WritableComparable interfaces

Storing data

Serialization and Containers

Compression

General-purpose file formats

Column-oriented data formats

RCFile

ORC

Parquet

Avro

Using the Java API

Summary

3. Processing – MapReduce and Beyond

MapReduce

Java API to MapReduce

The Mapper class

The Reducer class

The Driver class

Combiner

Partitioning

The optional partition function

Hadoop-provided mapper and reducer implementations

Sharing reference data

Writing MapReduce programs

Getting started

Running the examples

Local cluster

Elastic MapReduce

WordCount, the Hello World of MapReduce

Word co-occurrences

Trending topics

The Top N pattern

Sentiment of hashtags

Text cleanup using chain mapper

Walking through a run of a MapReduce job

Startup

Splitting the input

Task assignment

Task startup

Ongoing JobTracker monitoring

Mapper input

Mapper execution

Mapper output and reducer input

Reducer input

Reducer execution

Reducer output

Shutdown

Input/Output

InputFormat and RecordReader

Hadoop-provided InputFormat

Hadoop-provided RecordReader

OutputFormat and RecordWriter

Hadoop-provided OutputFormat

Sequence files

YARN

YARN architecture

The components of YARN

Anatomy of a YARN application

Life cycle of a YARN application

Fault tolerance and monitoring

Thinking in layers

Execution models

YARN in the real world – Computation beyond MapReduce

The problem with MapReduce

Tez

Hive-on-tez

Apache Spark

Apache Samza

YARN-independent frameworks

YARN today and beyond

Summary

4. Real-time Computation with Samza

Stream processing with Samza

How Samza works

Samza high-level architecture

Samza's best friend – Apache Kafka

YARN integration

An independent model

Hello Samza!

Building a tweet parsing job

The configuration file

Getting Twitter data into Kafka

Running a Samza job

Samza and HDFS

Windowing functions

Multijob workflows

Tweet sentiment analysis

Bootstrap streams

Stateful tasks

Summary

5. Iterative Computation with Spark

Apache Spark

Cluster computing with working sets

Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs)

Actions

Deployment

Spark on YARN

Spark on EC2

Getting started with Spark

Writing and running standalone applications

Scala API

Java API

WordCount in Java

Python API

The Spark ecosystem

Spark Streaming

GraphX

MLlib

Spark SQL

Processing data with Apache Spark

Building and running the examples

Running the examples on YARN

Finding popular topics

Assigning a sentiment to topics

Data processing on streams

State management

Data analysis with Spark SQL

SQL on data streams

Comparing Samza and Spark Streaming

Summary

6. Data Analysis with Apache Pig

An overview of Pig

Getting started

Running Pig

Grunt – the Pig interactive shell

Elastic MapReduce

Fundamentals of Apache Pig

Programming Pig

Pig data types

Pig functions

Load/store

Eval

The tuple, bag, and map functions

The math, string, and datetime functions

Dynamic invokers

Macros

Working with data

Filtering

Aggregation

Foreach

Join

Extending Pig (UDFs)

Contributed UDFs

Piggybank

Elephant Bird

Apache DataFu

Analyzing the Twitter stream

Prerequisites

Dataset exploration

Tweet metadata

Data preparation

Top n statistics

Datetime manipulation

Sessions

Capturing user interactions

Link analysis

Influential users

Summary

7. Hadoop and SQL

Why SQL on Hadoop

Other SQL-on-Hadoop solutions

Prerequisites

Overview of Hive

The nature of Hive tables

Hive architecture

Data types

DDL statements

File formats and storage

JSON

Avro

Columnar stores

Queries

Structuring Hive tables for given workloads

Partitioning a table

Overwriting and updating data

Bucketing and sorting

Sampling data

Writing scripts

Hive and Amazon Web Services

Hive and S3

Hive on Elastic MapReduce

Extending HiveQL

Programmatic interfaces

JDBC

Thrift

Stinger initiative

Impala

The architecture of Impala

Co-existing with Hive

A different philosophy

Drill, Tajo, and beyond

Summary

8. Data Lifecycle Management

What data lifecycle management is

Importance of data lifecycle management

Tools to help

Building a tweet analysis capability

Getting the tweet data

Introducing Oozie

A note on HDFS file permissions

Making development a little easier

Extracting data and ingesting into Hive

A note on workflow directory structure

Introducing HCatalog

Using HCatalog

The Oozie sharelib

HCatalog and partitioned tables

Producing derived data

Performing multiple actions in parallel

Calling a subworkflow

Adding global settings

Challenges of external data

Data validation

Validation actions

Handling format changes

Handling schema evolution with Avro

Final thoughts on using Avro schema evolution

Only make additive changes

Manage schema versions explicitly

Think about schema distribution

Collecting additional data

Scheduling work...