Ebook: Field Guide to Hadoop

"If your organization is about to enter the world of big data, you not only need to decide whether Apache Hadoop is the right platform to use, but also which of its many components are best suited to your task. This field guide makes the exercise manageable by breaking down the Hadoop ecosystem into short, digestible sections. You'll quickly understand how Hadoop's projects, subprojects, and related technologies work together"--Back cover.;Core technologies -- Database and data management -- Serialization -- Management and monitoring -- Analytic helpers -- Data transfer -- Security, access control, and auditing -- Cloud computing and virtualization.