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Big Data Analytics

You're reading from Big Data Analytics Real time analytics using Apache Spark and Hadoop

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785884696

Length 326 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Hadoop

Concepts

Big Data

Author (1):

Venkat Ankam

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Big Data Analytics

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Big Data Analytics at a 10,000-Foot View FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started with Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark

3. Deep Dive into Apache Spark

4. Big Data Analytics with Spark SQL, DataFrames, and Datasets

5. Real-Time Analytics with Spark Streaming and Structured Streaming

6. Notebooks and Dataflows with Spark and Hadoop

7. Machine Learning with Spark and Hadoop

8. Building Recommendation Systems with Spark and Mahout

9. Graph Analytics with GraphX

10. Interactive Analytics with SparkR

Index

Chapter 2. Getting Started with Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark

In this chapter, we will understand the basics of Hadoop and Spark, how Spark is different from MapReduce, and get started with the installation of clusters and setting up the tools needed for analytics.

This chapter is divided into the following subtopics:

Introducing Apache Hadoop
Introducing Apache Spark
Discussing why we use Hadoop with Spark
Installing Hadoop and Spark clusters

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Authors (1)

Venkat Ankam

Venkat Ankam

Venkat Ankam has over 18 years of IT experience and over 5 years in big data technologies, working with customers to design and develop scalable big data applications. Having worked with multiple clients globally, he has tremendous experience in big data analytics using Hadoop and Spark. He is a Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer and Administrator and also a Databricks Certified Spark Developer. He is the founder and presenter of a few Hadoop and Spark meetup groups globally and loves to share knowledge with the community. Venkat has delivered hundreds of trainings, presentations, and white papers in the big data sphere. While this is his first attempt at writing a book, many more books are in the pipeline.

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