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Apache Hadoop 3 Quick Start Guide

You're reading from  Apache Hadoop 3 Quick Start Guide

Product type Book
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788999830
Pages 220 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Hrishikesh Vijay Karambelkar Hrishikesh Vijay Karambelkar
Profile icon Hrishikesh Vijay Karambelkar

Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface Hadoop 3.0 - Background and Introduction Planning and Setting Up Hadoop Clusters Deep Dive into the Hadoop Distributed File System Developing MapReduce Applications Building Rich YARN Applications Monitoring and Administration of a Hadoop Cluster Demystifying Hadoop Ecosystem Components Advanced Topics in Apache Hadoop Other Books You May Enjoy

How MapReduce works

MapReduce is a programming methodology used for writing programs on Apache Hadoop. It allows the programs to run on a large scalable cluster of servers. MapReduce was inspired by functional programming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming). Functional Programming (FP) offers amazing unique features when compared to today's popular programming paradigms such as object-oriented (Java and JavaScript), declarative (SQL and CSS), or procedural (C, PHP, and Python). You can look at a comparison between multiple programming paradigms here. While we see a lot of interest in functional programming in academics, we rarely see equivalent enthusiasm from the developer community. Many developers and mentors claim that MapReduce is not actually a functional programming paradigm. Higher order functions in FP are functions that can take a function as...

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