- Hadoop Beginner's Guide
- Table of Contents
- Hadoop Beginner's Guide
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. What It's All About
- 2. Getting Hadoop Up and Running
- Hadoop on a local Ubuntu host
- Time for action – checking the prerequisites
- Time for action – downloading Hadoop
- Time for action – setting up SSH
- Time for action – using Hadoop to calculate Pi
- Time for action – configuring the pseudo-distributed mode
- Time for action – changing the base HDFS directory
- Time for action – formatting the NameNode
- Time for action – starting Hadoop
- Time for action – using HDFS
- Time for action – WordCount, the Hello World of MapReduce
- Using Elastic MapReduce
- Time for action – WordCount on EMR using the management console
- Comparison of local versus EMR Hadoop
- Summary
- 3. Understanding MapReduce
- Key/value pairs
- The Hadoop Java API for MapReduce
- Writing MapReduce programs
- Time for action – setting up the classpath
- Time for action – implementing WordCount
- Time for action – building a JAR file
- Time for action – running WordCount on a local Hadoop cluster
- Time for action – running WordCount on EMR
- Time for action – WordCount the easy way
- Walking through a run of WordCount
- Startup
- Splitting the input
- Task assignment
- Task startup
- Ongoing JobTracker monitoring
- Mapper input
- Mapper execution
- Mapper output and reduce input
- Partitioning
- The optional partition function
- Reducer input
- Reducer execution
- Reducer output
- Shutdown
- That's all there is to it!
- Apart from the combiner…maybe
- Time for action – WordCount with a combiner
- Time for action – fixing WordCount to work with a combiner
- Hadoop-specific data types
- Time for action – using the Writable wrapper classes
- Input/output
- Summary
- 4. Developing MapReduce Programs
- Using languages other than Java with Hadoop
- Time for action – implementing WordCount using Streaming
- Analyzing a large dataset
- Time for action – summarizing the UFO data
- Time for action – summarizing the shape data
- Time for action – correlating of sighting duration to UFO shape
- Time for action – performing the shape/time analysis from the command line
- Time for action – using ChainMapper for field validation/analysis
- Time for action – using the Distributed Cache to improve location output
- Counters, status, and other output
- Time for action – creating counters, task states, and writing log output
- Summary
- 5. Advanced MapReduce Techniques
- Simple, advanced, and in-between
- Joins
- Time for action – reduce-side join using MultipleInputs
- Graph algorithms
- Time for action – representing the graph
- Time for action – creating the source code
- Time for action – the first run
- Time for action – the second run
- Time for action – the third run
- Time for action – the fourth and last run
- Using language-independent data structures
- Time for action – getting and installing Avro
- Time for action – defining the schema
- Time for action – creating the source Avro data with Ruby
- Time for action – consuming the Avro data with Java
- Time for action – generating shape summaries in MapReduce
- Time for action – examining the output data with Ruby
- Time for action – examining the output data with Java
- Summary
- 6. When Things Break
- Failure
- Time for action – killing a DataNode process
- Time for action – the replication factor in action
- Time for action – intentionally causing missing blocks
- Time for action – killing a TaskTracker process
- Time for action – killing the JobTracker
- Time for action – killing the NameNode process
- What just happened?
- Starting a replacement NameNode
- The role of the NameNode in more detail
- File systems, files, blocks, and nodes
- The single most important piece of data in the cluster – fsimage
- DataNode startup
- Safe mode
- SecondaryNameNode
- So what to do when the NameNode process has a critical failure?
- BackupNode/CheckpointNode and NameNode HA
- Hardware failure
- Host failure
- Host corruption
- The risk of correlated failures
- Task failure due to software
- What just happened?
- Time for action – causing task failure
- Time for action – handling dirty data by using skip mode
- Summary
- 7. Keeping Things Running
- A note on EMR
- Hadoop configuration properties
- Time for action – browsing default properties
- Setting up a cluster
- Time for action – examining the default rack configuration
- Time for action – adding a rack awareness script
- Cluster access control
- Time for action – demonstrating the default security
- Managing the NameNode
- Time for action – adding an additional fsimage location
- Time for action – swapping to a new NameNode host
- Managing HDFS
- MapReduce management
- Time for action – changing job priorities and killing a job
- Scaling
- Summary
- 8. A Relational View on Data with Hive
- Overview of Hive
- Setting up Hive
- Time for action – installing Hive
- Using Hive
- Time for action – creating a table for the UFO data
- Time for action – inserting the UFO data
- Time for action – validating the table
- Time for action – redefining the table with the correct column separator
- Time for action – creating a table from an existing file
- Time for action – performing a join
- Time for action – using views
- Time for action – exporting query output
- Time for action – making a partitioned UFO sighting table
- Time for action – adding a new User Defined Function (UDF)
- Hive on Amazon Web Services
- Time for action – running UFO analysis on EMR
- Summary
- 9. Working with Relational Databases
- Common data paths
- Setting up MySQL
- Time for action – installing and setting up MySQL
- Time for action – configuring MySQL to allow remote connections
- Time for action – setting up the employee database
- Getting data into Hadoop
- Time for action – downloading and configuring Sqoop
- Time for action – exporting data from MySQL to HDFS
- Time for action – exporting data from MySQL into Hive
- Time for action – a more selective import
- Time for action – using a type mapping
- Time for action – importing data from a raw query
- Getting data out of Hadoop
- Time for action – importing data from Hadoop into MySQL
- Time for action – importing Hive data into MySQL
- Time for action – fixing the mapping and re-running the export
- AWS considerations
- Summary
- 10. Data Collection with Flume
- A note about AWS
- Data data everywhere...
- Time for action – getting web server data into Hadoop
- Introducing Apache Flume
- Time for action – installing and configuring Flume
- Time for action – capturing network traffic in a log file
- Time for action – logging to the console
- Time for action – capturing the output of a command to a flat file
- Time for action – capturing a remote file in a local flat file
- Time for action – writing network traffic onto HDFS
- Time for action – adding timestamps
- Time for action – multi level Flume networks
- Time for action – writing to multiple sinks
- The bigger picture
- Summary
- 11. Where to Go Next
- A. Pop Quiz Answers
- Index
Flume, found at http://flume.apache.org, is another Apache project with tight Hadoop integration and we will explore it for the remainder of this chapter.
Before we explain what Flume can do, let's make it clear what it is not. Flume is described as a system for the retrieval and distribution of logs, meaning line-oriented textual data. It is not a generic data-distribution platform; in particular, don't look to use it for the retrieval or movement of binary data.
However, since the vast majority of the data processed in Hadoop matches this description, it is likely that Flume will meet many of your data retrieval needs.
Note
Flume is also not a generic data serialization framework like Avro that we used in Chapter 5, Advanced MapReduce Techniques, or similar technologies such as Thrift and Protocol Buffers . As we'll see, Flume makes assumptions about the data format and provides no ways of serializing data outside of these.
Flume provides mechanisms for retrieving data from multiple sources, passing it to remote locations (potentially multiple locations in either a fan-out or pipeline model), and then delivering it to a variety of destinations. Though it does have a programmatic API that allows the development of custom sources and destinations, the base product has built-in support for many of the most common scenarios. Let's install it and take a look.
Flume has gone through some major changes in recent times. The original Flume (now renamed Flume OG for Original Generation) is being superseded by Flume NG (Next Generation). Though the general principles and capabilities are very similar, the implementation is quite different.
Because Flume NG is the future, we will cover it in this book. For some time though, it will lack several of the features of the more mature Flume OG, so if you find a specific requirement that Flume NG doesn't meet then it may be worth looking at Flume OG.
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