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Mastering Hadoop

Mastering Hadoop

By : Karanth
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Mastering Hadoop

Mastering Hadoop

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By: Karanth

Overview of this book

Do you want to broaden your Hadoop skill set and take your knowledge to the next level? Do you wish to enhance your knowledge of Hadoop to solve challenging data processing problems? Are your Hadoop jobs, Pig scripts, or Hive queries not working as fast as you intend? Are you looking to understand the benefits of upgrading Hadoop? If the answer is yes to any of these, this book is for you. It assumes novice-level familiarity with Hadoop.
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Amazon AWS S3

S3, short for Simple Storage Service, is Amazon's storage as a service offering. It provides reliable storage for data by providing redundancy. The consumer is charged for storage of data on S3 based on the amount of storage used. Any download of data from S3 is also charged, but data upload and transfer of data between AWS properties are free of charge. This makes it extremely attractive for the user to run EMR (Elastic Map Reduce) on AWS and have data stored on S3.

S3 can be used as the input and output data store for MapReduce jobs. The intermediate files can be stored on local disks or the HDFS of the EMR cluster. This also allows easy sharing of input and results among different people in the organization without fearing data loss, with high data security. If an EMR cluster gets terminated accidentally, all of the HDFS data will be lost unless it is moved out. Using S3 for input and output mitigates such risks.

However, S3 is significantly slower because it does not...

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