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Data Lake for Enterprises

You're reading from  Data Lake for Enterprises

Product type Book
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787281349
Pages 596 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (3):
Vivek Mishra Vivek Mishra
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Tomcy John Tomcy John
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Pankaj Misra Pankaj Misra
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Part 1 - Overview
Part 2 - Technical Building blocks of Data Lake
Part 3 - Bringing It All Together
1. Introduction to Data 2. Comprehensive Concepts of a Data Lake 3. Lambda Architecture as a Pattern for Data Lake 4. Applied Lambda for Data Lake 5. Data Acquisition of Batch Data using Apache Sqoop 6. Data Acquisition of Stream Data using Apache Flume 7. Messaging Layer using Apache Kafka 8. Data Processing using Apache Flink 9. Data Store Using Apache Hadoop 10. Indexed Data Store using Elasticsearch 11. Data Lake Components Working Together 12. Data Lake Use Case Suggestions

Why Hadoop?


For me, the question Why Hadoop? is not really a question. In the industry as of now, for big data Apache Hadoop is indispensable. There are alternatives, but most of them work in conjunction with Hadoop. Listed here are some of the prominent reasons why Hadoop is technology of choice for the technical capability that we are looking for in a Data Lake implementation:

  • It can handle high volumes of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data with ease.
  • It is less costly to implement as it can start off using commodity hardware and scale according to organization all requirement.
  • It has the ever growing Apache community to support it with frequent releases, releasing bug fixes and enhancements alike. Hadoop, as you know, has two core layers, namely the compute and data (HDFS) layers. The compute layer adds new frameworks and libraries, such as Pig and Hive, on top of the Hadoop ecosystem, making Hadoop all the more relevant for many use cases.
  • The library of Hadoop itself is...
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