Preface

We are currently facing an avalanche of data, and this data contains many insights that hold the keys to success or failure in the data-driven world. Next generation Hadoop (v2) offers a cutting-edge platform to store and analyze these massive data sets and improve upon the widely used and highly successful Hadoop MapReduce v1. The recipes that will help you analyze large and complex datasets with next generation Hadoop MapReduce will provide you with the skills and knowledge needed to process large and complex datasets using the next generation Hadoop ecosystem.

This book presents many exciting topics such as MapReduce patterns using Hadoop to solve analytics, classifications, and data indexing and searching. You will also be introduced to several Hadoop ecosystem components including Hive, Pig, HBase, Mahout, Nutch, and Sqoop.

This book introduces you to simple examples and then dives deep to solve in-depth big data use cases. This book presents more than 90 ready-to-use Hadoop MapReduce recipes in a simple and straightforward manner, with step-by-step instructions and real-world examples.