Category: MapReduce

Optimizing Hadoop for MapReduce – A practical guide to lowering some costs of mining Big Data – #bookreview

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Optimizing Hadoop for MapReduce Learn how to configure your Hadoop cluster to run optimal MapReduce jobs Khaled Tannir (Packt Publishing, paperback, Kindle) Time is money, as the old saying goes. And that saying especially applies to the world of Big Data, where much time, computing power and cash can be consumed while trying to extract profitable … Continue reading Optimizing Hadoop for MapReduce – A practical guide to lowering some costs of mining Big Data – #bookreview

Hadoop is hot! Three new how-to books for riding the Big Data elephant – #programming #bookreview

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In the world of Big Data, Hadoop has become the hard-charging elephant in the room. Its big-name users now span the alphabet and include such notables as Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Google, the New York Times, and Yahoo. Not bad for software named after a child’s toy elephant. Computer systems that run Hadoop can store, process, … Continue reading Hadoop is hot! Three new how-to books for riding the Big Data elephant – #programming #bookreview

MapReduce Design Patterns – For solving Big Data problems – #bookreview #programming #hadoop

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MapReduce Design Patterns Donald Miner and Adam Shook (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle) “MapReduce is a computing paradigm for processing data that resides on hundreds of computers,” the authors point out. It has been “popularized recently by Google, Hadoop, and many others.” The MapReduce paradigm is “extraordinarily powerful, but does not provide a general solution to what many … Continue reading MapReduce Design Patterns – For solving Big Data problems – #bookreview #programming #hadoop