Hadoop: The Definitive Guide - 4th Edition by Tom White (Paperback)

The "Storage and Analysis at Internet Scale" book is a comprehensive guide to building and maintaining reliable, scalable, distributed systems with Apache Hadoop.

With new chapters on YARN and related projects like Parquet, Flume, Crunch, and Spark, this fourth edition offers the most up-to-date information on Hadoop's role in healthcare systems and genomics data processing.

The book covers fundamental components such as MapReduce, HDFS, and YARN, and provides detailed instructions for setting up and maintaining a Hadoop cluster using HDFS and MapReduce on YARN.

Additionally, it explores two data formats: Avro for data serialization and Parquet for nested data, and covers data ingestion tools such as Flume (for streaming data) and Sqoop (for bulk data transfer).

The book also delves into high-level data processing tools like Pig, Hive, Crunch, and Spark, and provides an overview of the HBase distributed database and ZooKeeper distributed configuration service.

With expert guidance from Apache Hadoop committer Tom White, this book is ideal for programmers looking to analyze datasets of any size and administrators who want to set up and run Hadoop clusters.