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Learning Hadoop 2

Learning Hadoop 2

By : GABRIELE MODENA
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Learning Hadoop 2

Learning Hadoop 2

3.8 (4)
By: GABRIELE MODENA

Overview of this book

If you are a system or application developer interested in learning how to solve practical problems using the Hadoop framework, then this book is ideal for you. You are expected to be familiar with the Unix/Linux command-line interface and have some experience with the Java programming language. Familiarity with Hadoop would be a plus.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Why SQL on Hadoop


So far we have seen how to write Hadoop programs using the MapReduce APIs and how Pig Latin provides a scripting abstraction and a wrapper for custom business logic by means of UDFs. Pig is a very powerful tool, but its dataflow-based programming model is not familiar to most developers or business analysts. The traditional tool of choice for such people to explore data is SQL.

Back in 2008 Facebook released Hive, the first widely used implementation of SQL on Hadoop.

Instead of providing a way of more quickly developing map and reduce tasks, Hive offers an implementation of HiveQL, a query language based on SQL. Hive takes HiveQL statements and immediately and automatically translates the queries into one or more MapReduce jobs. It then executes the overall MapReduce program and returns the results to the user.

This interface to Hadoop not only reduces the time required to produce results from data analysis, it also significantly widens the net as to who can use Hadoop. Instead...

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