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Hrishikesh Vijay Karambelkar
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Hrishikesh Vijay Karambelkar

Hrishikesh Vijay Karambelkar is an innovator and an enterprise architect with 16 years of software design and development experience, specifically in the areas of big data, enterprise search, data analytics, text mining, and databases. He is passionate about architecting new software implementations for the next generation of software solutions for various industries, including oil and gas, chemicals, manufacturing, utilities, healthcare, and government infrastructure. In the past, he has authored three books for Packt Publishing: two editions of Scaling Big Data with Hadoop and Solr and one of Scaling Apache Solr. He has also worked with graph databases, and some of his work has been published at international conferences such as VLDB and ICDE.
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Prerequisites for Hadoop setup

In this section, we will look at the necessary prerequites for setting up Apache Hadoop in cluster or pseudo mode. Often, teams are forced to go through a major reinstallation of Hadoop and the data migration of their clusters due to improper planning for their cluster requirements. Hadoop can be installed on Windows as well as Linux; however, most productions that Hadoop installations run on are Unix or Linux-based platforms.

Preparing hardware for Hadoop

One important aspect of Hadoop setup is defining the hardware requirements and sizing before the start of a project. Although Apache Hadoop can run on commodity hardware, most of the implementations utilize server-class hardware for their Hadoop...

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Hrishikesh Vijay Karambelkar

Hrishikesh Vijay Karambelkar is an innovator and an enterprise architect with 16 years of software design and development experience, specifically in the areas of big data, enterprise search, data analytics, text mining, and databases. He is passionate about architecting new software implementations for the next generation of software solutions for various industries, including oil and gas, chemicals, manufacturing, utilities, healthcare, and government infrastructure. In the past, he has authored three books for Packt Publishing: two editions of Scaling Big Data with Hadoop and Solr and one of Scaling Apache Solr. He has also worked with graph databases, and some of his work has been published at international conferences such as VLDB and ICDE.
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