Big Data Analytics with Hadoop and Spark: A hands-on guide to big data engineering and scalable analytics (English Edition) by Shikha Mehta
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This book systematically navigates the entire ecosystem, starting with big data fundamentals, security, and HDFS architecture before mastering MapReduce through weather and stock data case studies. Technologies like Hadoop and Spark, powered by the Cloudera platform, have become essential for storing, processing, and analyzing big data across various industries, including finance, healthcare, e-commerce, and research in today’s data-driven world. Readers will gain hands-on experience with the Cloudera framework, learning high-level scripting with Pig Latin and structured data warehousing using HiveQL’s Metastore and partitions. Additionally, it explores NoSQL versatility with HBase and MongoDB’s CAP theorem, followed by Scala programming and Spark’s high-speed in-memory engine.