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Technologies in Hadoop Ecosystem

Hadoop => framework for distributed processing of large datasets across clusters of computers, it can scale up to thousands of machines, where each machine offers computation and data storage.
HBase => a scalable, distributed database that supports structured data storage for large tables.
Hive => a data warehouse infrastructure that provides data summarization and ad hoc querying.
Mahout => A scalable machine learning and data mining library.
Pig => data flow language and execution framework for parallel computation.
Spark => A fast engine for computing hadoop data.
Storm => a scalable and reliable engine for processing data as it flows into the system
Zookeeper => high performance coordination service for distributed applications.

Processes in Hadoop

can be found out by running command "jps"

Namenode
Secondary Namenode
Datanode
Job Tracker
Task Tracker

Note that in the hadoop version 2.0+, job tracker and task tracker have been replaced by YARN taskmanager, and resourcemanager.

Hadoop Setup

One machine in the cluster is specified as the namenode(which holds the metadata of the system).
Another dedicated machine is specified as the Resource Manager
The other machines act as a data node(where data is processed)

Namenode

has the metadata of the hadoop job, files to be processed, data blocks, etc
stores the file location related information in HDFS.

Datanode

data which needs to be processed is stored on the datanode.
mapper and reducer tasks run on the datanode.

Job Tracker

Normally, jobtracker runs on the same machine as the namenode.
takes the jobs from the client.
finds out the location of the data from the namenode.
submits the data to appropriate nodes.

Task Tracker

Normally tasktracker runs on the data node, where processing takes place.
send message to job tracker by sending heartbeat messages(normally every 2 minutes.)
heartbeat messages also contain the no of slots which are available with that tasktracker.

Secondary Namenode

keeps a backup of the namenode, and can be used if namenode goes down.

InputSplit

chunk of data which is processed by a single mapper.
generally equal to the HDFS block size, 256 MB.
Is the logical division of data in HDFS while HDFS block is the physical division of data.
hadoop job splits the datafile in multiple chunks, normally of block size, 256 MB in hadoop 2.4.0, each of which is processed by a mapper.

Types of Inputformat

Text InputFormat (Default) => offset of line as key and line as value.
KeyValue InputFormat => upto first tab is key, rest of line is passed as value.
Sequence InputFormat

HDFS

Hadoop Distributed File System
designed to hold and process large amount of data, which can range upto terabytes, or petabytes.
data is redundant and each block is stored in multiple machines.

Hadoop Overall flow

Clients submit jobs to the Hadoop Job tracker.
The JobTracker finds out the location of the data from the Namenode.
The JobTracker locates TaskTracker nodes which have available slots for processing or are close to the data that needs processing.
The JobTracker submits the task to the chosen TaskTracker nodes.
If the tasktracker do not submit heartbeat signals often to the jobtracker, the work is scheduled on a different TaskTracker.
If a task fails, the jobtracker may resubmit the job elsewhere, if a tasktracker/node fails often, it may be blacklisted, and no future tasks may be assigned to it.
When the task is completed by a tasktracker, the JobTracker updates the status of the job.

Hadoop Task flow

Mapper => Combiner(Optional) => Partitioner(Optional) => Reducer(Optional)

Mapper

Mapper task operate on data read from HDFS
The total no of mappers is defined by the input file size and the block size(256 MB default in hadoop 2.4.0+).
The no of mappers will be file size in MB divided by the block size(256 MB).
Roughly, each machine could execute between 10 to 100 mapper tasks.
Mapper write their intermediate output to the disk and eventually they are passed to the reducer.

Combiner

combiners are used to reduce the flow of the data over the network between the mappers and reducers.
operates on the data passed on by mapper.
is like a local reducer
on a given node, a combiner receives all data which a mapper passes.
data is passed on to the reducer from the combiner.
acts as a mini reducer which acts where the mapper exists.
it is written to reduce the load on the reducer, to reduce the network traffic.
It is not always guaranteed that a combiner will be executed.
the output format of the combiner must match the output format of the mapper.
example in a wordcount example, it could be used.

Partitioner

When the data is sent from the mapper to the reducer, a mapper needs to determine where a particular key will go.
partitioner makes sure that all the keys from a map reduce job go to the same reducer.
We could write our custom Partitioner if we wanted to send some particular keys to some specific reducers only.

Reducer

A reducer has three phases.

Shuffle: data is fetched from the mappers.
Sort: the data for a key is sorted just when it is fetched
Reduce: reduces the data with the appropriate computation of a key.

No of Reducers

(1.75 ~ 0.95)*N*(mapreduce.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum)
With 0.95, all the reducers can start immediately whenever mapper ends.
If we give 1.70, that increases the no of reducers, and faster reducers do their job fast, and take up the second round of extra reducing if required.

Hadoop Configuration Params

input files location in HDFS
output file location in HDFS, (should not exist already, otherwise, an error is thrown)
Input format
Output format
Mapper class, containing the map function.
Reducer class, containing the reduce function.
Combined Jar, containing the Mapper, reducer, and any other classes that may be needed.

Hadoop Configuration files

/src/core/core-site.xml => common properties for site.
/src/hdfs/hdfs-site.xml => HDFS properties, like replication
/src/mapred/mapred-site.xml => properties related to mapreduce
/src/yarn/yarn-site.xml => yarn specific properties
hadoop-env.sh => hadoop environment.

Speculative Execution

If a hadoop processing is running slow at a node, hadoop will launch duplicate tasks for it at other nodes.
whichever node finishes the task first acknowledges it, others are stopped.
This is speculative execution.

YARN

YARN was introduced in hadoop version 2.0
YARN's resource manager, node manager, application master have deprecated the job tracker, and task tracker.

Distributed Cache

allows you to share common configuration data across all nodes.
normally a properties file.
deprecated in the new version of hadoop

// In the driver

Configuration conf = getConf();

Job job = Job.getInstance(conf, "CountJob");

job.setMapperClass(CountMapper.class);

// ...

// see the # sign after the file location.

// we will be using the name after the # sign as our file name in the Mapper/Reducer

job.addCacheFile(new URI("/user/name/cache/some_file.json#some"));

job.addCacheFile(new URI("/user/name/cache/other_file.json#other"));

//  In the setup method of the mapper, which you will need to override.

if (context.getCacheFiles() != null && context.getCacheFiles().length > 0) {

        File some_file = new File("./some");

        File other_file = new File("./other");

        // do something, like may be read them  or parse as JSON or whatever.

    }

    super.setup(context);

Counters

counters in hadoop can be used for debugging hadoop code.
Each mapper/reducer has its own configuration, so that there is no global configuration/counter
feature provided by the hadoop framework that allows us to globally set some key value pairs during job execution.
can be used to count how many records were processed successfully/unsuccessfully, etc

// creare an enum class to be used as a counter class

public static enum RECORD_COUNTER {

    SESSION_ID_COUNTER,

    USER_ID_COUNTER

};

// in mapper or reducer code

context.getCounter(RECORD_COUNTER.USER_ID_COUNTER).increment(1);

// printing the value at the end when the job is finished.

Configuration conf = new Configuration();

Cluster cluster = new Cluster(conf);

Job job = Job.getInstance(cluster,conf);

result = job.waitForCompletion(true);

...

// job finished, get counters.

Counters counters = job.getCounters();  

// get counter by name and print its stats.     

Counter userIdCounter = counters.findCounter(RECORD_COUNTER.USER_ID_COUNTER);

System.out.println(userIdCounter.getDisplayName()+":"+c1.getValue());

Sqoop

used to transfer data from RDBMS to HDFS and vice versa.

Misc

hadoop tries to rerun a failed job a few (default of 4) times before killing the job, and reporting the error.
to add a node in hadoop cluster, add the host file entry in configuration file and run "hadoop dfsadmin -refreshNodes"
WebDAV is an extension which allows us to view HDFS files as local filesystem.
By default, data in HDFS is replicated by a factor of 3 in which 2 copies of the data are on the same rack, and one copy is in other rack.
Map reduce is normally used to do distributed programming on a cluster on computers.
Intially, the Master node, reduces the problems to smaller subsets, and distributes to worker nodes, like a tree structure.
subtasks get done, and passed to upper levels.
Master node then collects the answers to the smaller problems, and combines them to get the initial answer it needed.
FSImage: metadata about all the file, contains filenames, permissions, block locations of each file,
EditLog: maintains the logs of any change in the file system meta data.
difference between Hive and HBase???

Commands

"hadoop job -list" => list all hadoop jobs
"hadoop job -kill " => kill a job
"hadoop balancer" => balances the data in the data nodes.

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