| Hadoop: The Definitive Guide |  | Author: Tom White
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 528
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7 x 1.1
ISBN: 0596521979
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.74
EAN: 9780596521974
ASIN: 0596521979
Publication Date: June 5, 2009
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Organizations large and small are adopting Apache Hadoop to deal with huge application datasets. Hadoop is ideal for storing and processing massive amounts of data. This title demonstrates how to use Hadoop to build reliable, scalable, distributed systems. It helps programmers find details for analyzing large datasets with Hadoop.
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 Excellent book: get it, but beware... November 12, 2009
M. Riello (Cambridge, UK)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is really an excellent introduction to Hadoop and related projects (e.g. HBase, Zookeeper,Pig, etc.). If you want to find out more about Hadoop and the Map/Reduce paradigm this is definitively the best book you can get. If you want to get serious about Hadoop and Map/Reduce (this was my case) it is even better because it really covers a lot of details that you will not be able to find on the on-line (rather scarce) documentation.
If you are mainly interested in HBase do not expect too much though. The book is dedicating to it only one chapter providing a very high level overview that will neither help you address nor solve any real-life problem. Anyway, the title of the book is 'Hadoop' not 'HBase' so, fair enough.
The main reason for holding back the fifth star is that the book is based on the 0.19.* API. This book was just bad timing since it was only released in June 2009 and as of Novemeber 2009 it is already obsolete since Hadoop 0.20 API changed so radically that most of the examples will only work if you are happy to use 90% deprecated classes in your code. I still think it is a 4-star book because any decent developer would have little trouble moving from the 0.19.* to the 0.20.* API.
So, in short, go get it !
 Poor Practical Examples August 17, 2010
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This book is good at going over the API specifications. It tries to explain most of the technical functions and for long book like this it can be very boring.
But if you try to understand the essence of the cloud and mapreduce it is really poor. there very little example about the contents. It is very hard get benefit from the technical knowledge
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