Web 2.0 has changed the way we conduct business, interact with customers, share information with friends and family, measure success in terms of business revenue and customer wallet share, and define brand management, and, most importantly, it has created a revenue channel like none other. Whether you plan your vacation, buy the newest...

• Step-by-step guidance to get you started with Impala on your Hadoop cluster
• Manipulate your data rapidly by writing proper SQL statements
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Today's enterprise architects need to understand how the Hadoop frameworks and APIs fit together, and how they can be integrated to deliver real-world solutions. This book is a practical, detailed guide to building and implementing those solutions, with...

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Learn the right cutting-edge skills and knowledge to leverage Spark Streaming to implement a wide array of real-time, streaming applications. This book walks you through end-to-end real-time application development using real-world applications, data, and code. Taking an application-first approach, each chapter introduces use cases from...

• Integrate Storm with other Big Data technologies like Hadoop, HBase, and Apache Kafka
• Explore log processing and machine learning using Storm
• Step-by-step and easy-to-understand guide to...

With Microsoft HDInsight, business professionals and data analysts can rapidly leverage the power of Hadoop on a flexible, scalable cloud-based platform, using Microsoft's accessible business intelligence, visualization, and productivity tools. Now, in just 24 lessons of one hour or less, you can learn all the skills and...

• Explore the integration of Apache Spark with third party applications such as H20, Databricks and Titan
• Evaluate how Cassandra and Hbase can be used for storage
• An...