A simple introduction to Hadoop talk given to the Maine Java Users' Group February 15, 2011.

1. A Hadoop Primer
Feb 2011
10.20.2005

2. http://redmonk.com/public/hadoop.pdf
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3. The Background
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4. October, 2003
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5. December, 2004
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6. Map::Reduce
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7. Job::Map Reduce::Output
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8. Counting Shakespeare
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9. The Birth of Hadoop
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12. Project Architecture
Source: Running Hadoop On Ubuntu Linux, Michael G. Noll, 8.8.07
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13. Project Traction
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14. Employment Potential
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15. Hadoop Users
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16. Why Hadoop?
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17. More Machines = More Faster
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18. The reason everyone knows
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19. BIG DATA
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20. “The big issue is not that everyone will
suddenly operate at petabyte scale; a lot of
folks do not have that much data.
The more important topics are the specifics
of the storage and processing infrastructure
and what approaches best suit each
problem.”
- Bradford Cross, Flightcaster/Woven
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21. The reason not everyone
knows
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22. ru d
U st tu e Data
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c
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23. What Hadoop Is
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24. “build Amazon's product search indices”
“build the recommender system for behavioral targeting”
“ETL style processing and statistics generation”
“information extraction & search”
“searching and analysis of millions of rental bookings”
“we use Hadoop to summarize of user's tracking data”
“we use Hadoop to store ad serving logs”
“the freedom to query the data in an ad-hoc manner”
“generating web graphs on 100 nodes”
“we use Hadoop for batch-processing large RDF datasets”
“facial similarity and recognition across large datasets“
“We are using Hadoop and Nutch to crawl Blog posts”
“Used for ETL & data analysis on terascale datasets”
Source: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/PoweredBy
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25. What Hadoop Isn't
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26. A relational database killer
No Yes
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27. Beyond Hadoop
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28. The Hadoop Ecosystem
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29. What We Use Hadoop For
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30. Crawling Largeish
Unstructured Datasets
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31. Like 1.3M StackOverflow Questions
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32. Or 1.7M HackerNews Entries
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33. Or Years of Apache Log Files
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34. How to Get Started
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35. We use Cloudera
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36. Mostly because it's easy
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37. This easy
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38. Or if you prefer
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39. Or maybe this
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40. QUESTIONS
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41. Student? Talk to us
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