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Section 1: Introduction to Hadoop

  • History and core concepts of Hadoop
  • Ecosystem overview
  • Distributions
  • High-level architecture
  • Common Hadoop myths
  • Challenges associated with Hadoop
  • Hardware and software requirements
  • Lab: First look at Hadoop

Section 2: HDFS

  • Design and architecture
  • Core concepts (horizontal scaling, replication, data locality, rack awareness)
  • Daemons: NameNode, Secondary NameNode, DataNode
  • Communication and heartbeats
  • Data integrity mechanisms
  • Read and write paths
  • NameNode High Availability (HA) and Federation
  • Labs: Interacting with HDFS

Section 3: Map Reduce

  • Concepts and architecture
  • Daemons (MRV1): JobTracker and TaskTracker
  • Processing phases: driver, mapper, shuffle/sort, reducer
  • MapReduce Version 1 and Version 2 (YARN)
  • Internals of MapReduce
  • Introduction to Java MapReduce programming
  • Labs: Running a sample MapReduce program

Section 4: Pig

  • Pig versus Java MapReduce
  • Pig job flow
  • Pig Latin language
  • ETL processes with Pig
  • Transformations and joins
  • User-defined functions (UDF)
  • Labs: Writing Pig scripts for data analysis

Section 5: Hive

  • Architecture and design
  • Data types
  • SQL support within Hive
  • Creating Hive tables and executing queries
  • Partitions
  • Joins
  • Text processing
  • Labs: Various exercises on processing data with Hive

Section 6: HBase

  • Concepts and architecture
  • HBase versus RDBMS versus Cassandra
  • HBase Java API
  • Time-series data handling in HBase
  • Schema design
  • Labs: Interacting with HBase via shell; programming with HBase Java API; Schema design exercise

Requirements

  • Proficiency in the Java programming language (as most coding exercises are conducted in Java)
  • Comfort with the Linux environment (including navigating the command line and editing files using vi or nano)

Lab environment

Zero Installation Required: There is no need to install Hadoop software on your personal machine. A fully functional Hadoop cluster will be provided for student use.

Participants will need the following:

  • An SSH client (Linux and Mac systems come with built-in SSH clients; PuTTY is recommended for Windows users)
  • A web browser to access the cluster (Firefox is recommended)
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