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You may be reading this book for many reasons. It could be because you heard all about Hadoop and what it can do to crunch petabytes of data in a reasonable amount of time. While reading into Hadoop you found that, for random access to the accumulated data, there is something called HBase. Or it was the hype that is prevalent these days...

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
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• Process large and complex datasets using next generation Hadoop
• Install, configure, and administer MapReduce programs and learn what's new in MapReduce v2
• More than 90...

• 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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